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authorBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2023-01-18 14:33:52 -0500
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2023-01-28 02:57:59 -0500
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Revert "CApiFFI: add ConstPtr for encoding const-qualified pointer return types (#22043)"
This reverts commit 99aca26b652603bc62953157a48e419f737d352d.
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-rw-r--r--docs/users_guide/9.6.1-notes.rst3
-rw-r--r--docs/users_guide/exts/ffi.rst12
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/9.6.1-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/9.6.1-notes.rst
index f0961348f3..e78972a919 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/9.6.1-notes.rst
+++ b/docs/users_guide/9.6.1-notes.rst
@@ -167,9 +167,6 @@ Runtime system
``ghc`` library
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- Add `Foreign.C.Types.ConstPtr` was added to encode ``const``-qualified pointer return
- types in foreign declarations when using ``CApiFFI`` extension.
-
``ghc-heap`` library
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/exts/ffi.rst b/docs/users_guide/exts/ffi.rst
index f23c223279..b490ac662d 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/exts/ffi.rst
+++ b/docs/users_guide/exts/ffi.rst
@@ -437,18 +437,6 @@ specified. The syntax looks like: ::
data {-# CTYPE "unistd.h" "useconds_t" #-} T = ...
newtype {-# CTYPE "useconds_t" #-} T = ...
-In case foreign declarations contain ``const``-qualified pointer return
-type, `ConstPtr` from :base-ref:`Foreign.C.Types` may be used to
-encode this, e.g. ::
-
- foreign import capi "header.h f" f :: CInt -> ConstPtr CInt
-
-which corresponds to
-
-.. code-block:: c
-
- const *int f(int);
-
``hs_thread_done()``
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~