FYI — I just pushed this; validation went through, and a simple test of the new functionality succeeds.
I put a verbose comment in Note [Initializing globals] in CoreMonad. commit 163de25813d12764aa5ded1666af7c06fee0d67e Author: Nicolas Frisby <[email protected]> Date: Wed Jul 3 18:23:54 2013 -0500 include FastString.string_table in CoreMonad.reinitializeGlobals On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones <[email protected]>wrote: > Nick**** > > ** ** > > Reading your (excellent) reply to Joachim, that would be an excellent > thing to do.**** > > ** ** > > Please comment it copiously with a concrete example (a la Joachim).**** > > ** ** > > Simon**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *On Behalf Of *Nicolas Frisby > *Sent:* 03 July 2013 20:22 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* add FastString.string_table to CoreMonad.reinitializeGlobals?** > ** > > ** ** > > Was the FastString Table intentionally left out of the reinitializeGlobals > mechanism?**** > > ** ** > > This has lead to some confusion in using pieces of the front-end within > GHC plugins. **** > > ** ** > > Is there foreseeable harm in adding it? I've done so locally, and minimal > testing seems fine.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks.**** >
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