John Goerzen wrote: > Hello, > > I have been writing code using the docs over at > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/index.html, which > is the only comprehensive library reference I could find. > > I am using some code from System.IO, supposedly from base. When I try > to build this with nhc98, it doesn't know about hGetBuf, hPutBuf, or > openBinaryFile from there or about mallocForeignPtrArray from the > Foreign.* area. But all these look standard to me.
They aren't; they are GHC extensions, except for mallocForeignPtrArray, which is specified by the FFI addendum: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/ > What am I missing here? Does nhc98 really completely lack the ability > to read binary data from a file? I can't comment on nhc98, but the Haskell98 standard doesn't include any mechanism for binary I/O. > Or where should I be finding it, and > how could I have known for myself that those particular ghc functions > were unsupported elsewhere? The Haskell98 report can be found at: http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/ Anything which isn't listed there is essentially a vendor extension. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe