Missing instance declarations in base

[Mike Izbicki]

Are the alignment issues for tuples not something that CPP could fix?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:
> The main problem with adding those in general is that then we have to get
> deeper into the business of packing and alignment. You need to add the
> spacers for when the second structure isn't aligned with the first, and the
> logic for that isn't cross-platform friendly.
>
> -Edward
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> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Henning Thielemann
> <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, Edward Kmett wrote:
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>>> Also, I wonder if () could be Storable:
>>>
>>> instance Storable () where
>>>   sizeOf _ = 0
>>>   alignment _ = 1
>>>   peek _ = return ()
>>>   poke _ _ = return ()
>>>
>>>
>>> No objection from me to any of them; a very strong +1.
>>
>>
>> Btw. what about Storable (a,b) and Storable (a,b,c)?
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