#3503: Add __attribute__((constructor))-equivalent pragma
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Reporter: pumpkin | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: Compiler
Version: 6.11 | Severity: minor
Keywords: | Testcase:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
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It would be nice to let one's library perform initialization tasks at load
time. Then the integer-gmp allocation functions could be changed from
within haskell and various other FFI libraries would be easier to bind to.
As for syntax, maybe something like the following would work?
{-# CONSTRUCTOR f #-}
f :: IO ()
f = ...
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3503>
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