Alex and GHC 7.8

[Roman Cheplyaka]

See http://ro-che.info/articles/2014-03-08-happy-alex-ghc-7.8.html

* wren ng thornton <winterkoninkje at gmail.com> [2014-03-07 23:03:32-0500]
> Hello,
> 
> In testing my packages for the impending GHC 7.8 release, I ran into
> some issues with Alex-generated code. In particular, it looks like the
> (>=#) and (==#)  operators now return Int# instead of Bool, so
> expressions like
> 
>     if (offset >=# 0#) && (check ==# ord_c) then ...
> 
> no longer type check. Is this a known issue? Are there any plans to
> fix it? I'd offer to submit a pull-request, but I'm not familiar with
> the Alex codebase so that'd take a while
> 
> -- 
> Live well,
> ~wren
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