[Haskell-cafe] GHC.Ptr, Foreign.Storable, Data.Storable.Endian, looking for good examples of usage

[Daniel Fischer]

On Monday 10 January 2011 16:45:36, Aaron Gray wrote:
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> This is interesting, what does the following line do :-
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>     data Int24 = I24# Int# deriving (Eq, Ord)
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> regarding the I24# and Int#, are these inbuilt ?

Int# is the raw machine int (4 or 8 bytes) and I24# is the constructor. GHC 
uses the magic hash '#' to denote raw unboxed types (and the constructors 
making ordinary boxed Haskell types from these, e.g. there's

data Int = I# Int#
data Word = W# Word#
data Double = D# Double#

and more defined in base [GHC.Types, GHC.Word]).

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> Thanks,
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> Aaron