[project @ 2001-06-28 14:15:04 by simonmar]

First cut of the Haskell Core Libraries
=======================================

NOTE: it's not meant to be a working snapshot.  The code is just here
to look at and so the NHC/Hugs guys can start playing around with it.

There is no build system.  For GHC, the libraries tree is intended to
be grafted onto an existing fptools/ tree, and the Makefile in
libraries/core is a quick hack for that setup.  This won't work at the
moment without the other changes needed in fptools/ghc, which I
haven't committed because they'll cause breakage.  However, with the
changes required these sources build a working Prelude and libraries.

The layout mostly follows the one we agreed on, with one or two minor
changes; in particular the Data/Array layout probably isn't final
(there are several choices here).

The document is in libraries/core/doc as promised.

The cbits stuff is just a copy of ghc/lib/std/cbits and has
GHC-specific stuff in it.  We should really separate the
compiler-specific C support from any compiler-independent C support
there might be.

Don't pay too much attention to the portability or stability status
indicated in the header of each source file at the moment - I haven't
gone through to make sure they're all consistent and make sense.

I'm using non-literate source outside of GHC/.  Hope that's ok with
everyone.

We need to discuss how the build system is going to work...

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diff --git a/libraries/base/Foreign.hs b/libraries/base/Foreign.hs
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+{-# OPTIONS -fno-implicit-prelude #-}
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- 
+-- Module      :  Foreign
+-- Copyright   :  (c) The FFI task force 2001
+-- License     :  BSD-style (see the file libraries/core/LICENSE)
+-- 
+-- Maintainer  :  ffi@haskell.org
+-- Stability   :  experimental
+-- Portability :  non-portable
+--
+-- $Id: Foreign.hs,v 1.1 2001/06/28 14:15:01 simonmar Exp $
+--
+-- A collection of data types, classes, and functions for interfacing
+-- with another programming language. This is only a convenience module
+-- in the future, but currently it has the additional task of hiding
+-- those entities exported from other modules, which are not part of the
+-- FFI proposal.
+--
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+module Foreign
+        ( module Data.Int
+	, module Data.Word
+	, module Foreign.Ptr
+	, module Foreign.ForeignPtr
+	, module Foreign.StablePtr
+        , module Foreign.Storable
+	, module Foreign.Marshal.Alloc
+	, module Foreign.Marshal.Array
+	, module Foreign.Marshal.Error
+	, module Foreign.Marshal.Utils
+        ) where
+
+import Data.Int
+import Data.Word
+import Foreign.Ptr
+import Foreign.ForeignPtr
+import Foreign.StablePtr
+import Foreign.Storable
+import Foreign.Marshal.Alloc
+import Foreign.Marshal.Array
+import Foreign.Marshal.Error
+import Foreign.Marshal.Utils