On 2006-04-29, Manuel M T Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 06.04.2006, 16:37 -0700 schrieb John Meacham: >> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:28:01PM -0700, John Meacham wrote: >> > I was curious if ghc could support the following basic types, they will >> > likely just be aliases of existing types. >> > >> > WordPtr uintptr_t >> > WordMax uintmax_t >> > IntPtr intptr_t >> > IntMax intmax_t >> > >> > all these C types are defined by ISO C so should be available, >> > otherwise, they are easy enough to generate in ghcs autoconf script. >> > >> > jhc provides these under these names in Data.Word and Data.Int. >> > they would be useful for writing jhc/ghc portable low level code, and >> > writing 32/64 bit safe code. >> >> oh, I forgot the all important conversion routines, >> >> ptrToWordPtr :: Ptr a -> WordPtr >> wordPtrToPtr :: WordPtr -> Ptr a >> >> ptrToIntPtr :: Ptr a -> IntPtr >> intPtrToPtr :: IntPtr -> Ptr a >> >> jhc makes these available in Jhc.Addr, but if ghc decides to provide >> them in a common spot (Foreign.Ptr maybe?) >> >> then I will have jhc follow suit. >> >> I'd also propose these be added to the FFI standard. > > I collect additions to the FFI on the Haskell' wiki: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/ForeignFunctionInterface > > I added a note about these types. Any other ISO C types that we should > include?
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