Missing instance declarations in base
Henning Thielemann
lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Mon Jun 29 20:55:42 UTC 2015
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Sven Panne <svenpanne at gmail.com> wrote:
> -1 to obeying the system ABI blindly for tuples: There is the notion of packed structures, not
> everything using the FFI uses the system ABI (e.g. various OpenGL data structures), etc. Having
> some kind of support for the system ABI would be nice, but this should not be mixed with the
> Storable class IMHO.
>
>
> The FFI being part of the Haskell Report, and Storable being necessary
> for implementation, I think it's on you to produce a new suitable class
> instead.
I think the same. For packed structures you would need a new
PackedStorable class.
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