FFI proposal: allow some control over the scope of C headerfiles

[John Meacham]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:40:58AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Admittedly I haven't tried this route (not including *any* external
> headers at all when compiling .hc files).  It might be possible, but you
> lose the safety net of compiler-checked calls.

yeah, perhaps a hybrid approach of some sort, when building the package,
use the system headers, but then include generated prototypes inside the
package-file and don't propagate #includes once the package is built.

or just an intitial conformance check against the system headers somehow
(?), but then only use your own generated ones when actually compiling
haskell code. It would be nice to never need to include external headers
in .hc files.

        John

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