CComplex type

[Daniel Cartwright]

Yes, there should be a lot more in the C FFI. I would definitely be
interested in working on that.

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Carter Schonwald <
carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> More broadly: the FFI types ghc has should be revamped to add not just
> that but also the StdInt types like (U)Int_{Ptr,64,32} etc
>
> but yes, thats definitely specfied in like c99 or c11, and should be in
> the ffi addendum etc
>
> all of the above should also be reflected in the 2020 haskell revision.
>
> Ostensibly John Wiegley volunteered for that, but if you wanna lead the
> charge on that, i'm pretty confident he'd be happy to let you.  I'm
> "cosponsoring" that too, so any way i can help let me know :)
>
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Daniel Cartwright <chessai1996 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have recently found it useful while working with the FFI to have a
>> CComplex data type, like so:
>>
>> data CComplex a = Complex {-# UNPACK #-} !a {-# UNPACK #-} !a
>>
>> Would something like this be a good addition to Foreign.C.Types?
>>
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