Storable laws

[Evan Laforge]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 11:13 AM, John Wiegley <johnw at newartisans.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "EL" == Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> writes:
>
> EL> If you are writing a new C binding, I recommend something higher-level
> EL> than hsc2hs, such as c2hs, which I think should sidestep the problem
> EL> entirely by verifying your types. But if you are already using hsc2hs and
> EL> for whatever reason don't want subtle memory corruption bugs, you can
> EL> import ForeignC instead of Foreign and Foreign.C, and see if you have any.
>
> Note that c2hsc is even higher, since it will generate the .hsc files for you
> from the C headers.

So many C FFI tools.  Is there a survey somewhere?

That might have saved me some time long ago, when it seemed like the
only choices were green card and hsc2hs, and green card was already
somewhat obsolete looking.  But come to think of it, I don't even know
why...