typelead/eta-hackage

network-transport-0.4.4.0

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dpwiz commented

Is a dependency for distributed-process.

Offending code:

#ifdef mingw32_HOST_OS

foreign import stdcall unsafe "htonl" htonl :: CInt -> CInt
foreign import stdcall unsafe "ntohl" ntohl :: CInt -> CInt
foreign import stdcall unsafe "htons" htons :: CShort -> CShort
foreign import stdcall unsafe "ntohs" ntohs :: CShort -> CShort
  
#else
  
foreign import ccall unsafe "htonl" htonl :: CInt -> CInt
foreign import ccall unsafe "ntohl" ntohl :: CInt -> CInt
foreign import ccall unsafe "htons" htons :: CShort -> CShort
foreign import ccall unsafe "ntohs" ntohs :: CShort -> CShort
  
#endif

Nothing fancy. It is used to convert numbers to network-order bytestrings.

I've downloaded etlas merely an hour ago, so no PR for now 😉

rahulmutt commented

Java doesn't really have much of a concept of "network" and "host" byte order. We did tackle this problem in the network package itself. Take a look at the network patch (Note that it's incomplete - we just ported enough to get the wai package working).

rahulmutt commented

And on another note, Eta has a nice (hidden) feature that all Eta closures are serialisable so you can send closures over the wire w/o static pointers and distributed-process! The functionality is not yet exposed, but I'd be happy to add a bit of documentation if you're interested in playing around with it.

dpwiz commented

Oh... the DP itself has indeed loads of TH for closure magic, so this patch would'n help that much.