How to find out the C type signature corresponding to a Haskell function type in FFI?

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

"Brian Hulley" <brianh at metamilk.com> writes:

> I've got a Haskell module with the following ffi import:
>
> foreign import ccall duma_init :: Int -> IO Int
>
> However my problem is that I've got no idea what the type signature
> for the corresponding C function should be,

HsInt duma_init(HsInt arg);

Or use int on the C side and CInt on the Haskell side.

fromIntegral can be used for converting integers in Haskell.

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