[HOpenGL] GL utilities, toolkits, and questions..

Alastair Reid alastair@reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk
22 Jul 2002 17:29:27 +0100


>> If we believe the marketing hype, ghc-5.04.1 will have what it
>> takes, and the FFI spec is stable (they say..).

> Yes, but (as far as I know) ghc's FFI is not implemented in other
> haskell systems (or am I wrong?). 

It is implemented in NHC and in the current CVS copy of Hugs too.

> I mean, is there a standardized way to call foreign code? Am I wrong?

When 3 out of 4 Haskell compilers support it, I'd say it is a de facto
standard and can be relied upon just as one could (and still can) use
GreenCard to generate portable code.

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