briqueabraque: > >>Are there plans to include C99 'complex' type > >>in Foreign, maybe as CFloatComplex, CDoubleComplex > >>and CLongDoubleComplex? This seems an easy addition > >>to the standard and would allow binding of a few > >>interesting libraries, like GSL. > > > >A separate library for new types to add to Foreign would be the easiest > >way forward. Just put the foreign-c99 package on Hackage? > > As far as I know, this is not possible. (I tried for > a long time to do that, actually, until I reallized > it could not be done.) > > If it's not true, i.e., I could actually have some > arbitrary sized parameter as argument to a function > or as a return value (and not its pointer), what > did I saw wrong? I understand only Foreign.C.C* > types or forall a. => Foreign.Ptr.Ptr a can be used > like that.
Oh, you mean you need to teach the compiler about unboxed complex types? -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
