I would find a ForeignData extension incredibly helpful. This will be crucial if Haskell ever wants to target out of the ordinary systems.
/jve On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:38 PM, John Meacham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:55:14PM -0800, Evan Laforge wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Andrea Rossato > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm writing the bindings to a C library which uses, in some functions, > > > global variables. > > > > > > To make it clearer, those functions need a global variable to be > > > defined. A C program using my_function, one of the library functions, > > > would look like: > > > > I don't think you can use the FFI to declare symbols for C. One > > not-so-pretty but effective way to do it is create a stub.c with the > > variables declared along with setting functions, then bind those > > functions like any other. > > Yes, it is unfortunate this is the case. my ForeignData proposal was > meant to address this: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/ForeignData > > I am not entirely sure about the proposal as described, but I think > something like it should be done. > > John > > -- > John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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