[Haskell-cafe] ffi call works fine in ghci but not as ghc compiledsegfault

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Branimir Maksimovic <
branimir.maksimovic at gmail.com> wrote:

>  You are passing wchar_t* and function expects char*.
>

FWIW they asked this before (possibly on a different list) and, absent the
C information, I pointed out that Win32 API functions use CWString. This
was apparently taken to mean that CWString was the only option....

Some awareness of one's platform conventions tends to be helpful when doing
FFI. It seems to be absent here. :/

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