FFI and fixed-size integer types

[Ross Mellgren]

Reading the FFI spec and information about stdint.h, it looks like  
this guarantee holds already -- FFI guarantees that Int<n> and Word<n>  
will be n bits wide and will operate with 2^n arithmetic. It looks  
like C99 correspondingly defines the same kind of thing for int<n>_t  
and uint<n>_t. I guess the only missing piece is there is no  
specification of the byte order, though I would be surprised if they  
were not both in host byte order.

-Ross

On Feb 10, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Hello ,
>
> <citating letter from cafe>
>
>>>> After reading an ISO draft for standard C, I found
>>>> a few types that could be usefull when binding to
>>>> libraries (these are from <stdint.h>):
>>>>
>>>> int8_t, uint8_t, int16_t, uint16_t, int32_t,
>>>> uint32_t, int64_t, uint64_t
>
> i propose to change FFI addendum so that haskell compilers guarantee
> correspondence between Int16 and int16_t types and so on
>
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Bulat                          mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
>
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