Funny things on HPs

1998-03-11 Thread Sven Panne
Compiling GreenCard generated programs does not always work on HP-UX. The following program (a short version of some GreenCard output) demonstrates the problem: -- Main.hs -- import Addr main :: IO () main = do gc_result - _casm_ ``do

Re: Funny things on HPs

1998-03-11 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Sven Panne writes: Compiling GreenCard generated programs does not always work on HP-UX. The following program (a short version of some GreenCard output) demonstrates the problem: -- Main.hs -- import Addr main :: IO () main =

Re: Binary files in Haskell

1998-03-11 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Alex Ferguson and (earlier) Yoshihiko Ichikawa ask for clarification of the intent of the discussion on binary I/O. It might help if I outline the capabilities of the Binary library (currently available only for nhc13, but as Simon PJ notes, if you want it in ghc/hugs, ask him). 1. Reading

Re: Binary files in Haskell

1998-03-11 Thread Simon L Peyton Jones
Real world example: development tools process a large geometric data set to build a run-time optimized BSP tree with precalculated lighting and collision information. The user application will not modify this data, but it will have to load it dynamically without slowing down a 30Hz

Re: Binary files in Haskell

1998-03-11 Thread Steve Roggenkamp
Alex Ferguson wrote: Tony Davie: And anyway didn't this start out about how to do I/O on binary data. To be honest, I'm not sure this discussion does necessarily address the original query: Steve Roggenkamp: I would like to use Haskell for several larger scale projects, but I