ANN: H98 FFI Addendum 1.0, Release Candidate 13

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Sun Nov 2 04:43:24 EST 2003


Alastair Reid <alastair at reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk> wrote,

> > I wonder how this discrepancy between the libraries and the
> > report arose. 
> 
> For what it's worth, the library has been that way since June 28, 2001:
> 
> http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/libraries/base/Foreign/
> Storable.hs?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
> 
> http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/libraries/base/GHC/
> Storable.lhs?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
> 
> This seems to be copied from Marcin's QForeign which had the same type from 
> Jan 2, 2001 - March 18, 2001 (i.e., the entire lifetime of the library)
> 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/qforeign/qforeign/lib/
> QStorable.hsc?rev=1.7&view=markup
> 
> > Did I simply make a mistake when writting the
> > report (then, this would qualify as an error in the report
> > anyway)?
> 
> On this evidence, it looks like it's an error in the report.

I agree.  I am changing the report.  Thanks for the
forensics.  And thanks to Sven for spotting the mismatch.

Cheers,
Manuel


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