Re: base not detecting Double/Float machine sizes (QNXNTO)

Somebody claiming to be Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>libraries/base/Foreign/C/Types.hs:162:25:
>
>Not in scope: type constructor or class `HTYPE_FLOAT'

After much more digging into the source, it seems that the `Storable` class 
for the CFloat and CDouble types assumes that HTYPE_FLOAT and HTYPE_DOUBLE 
have the right storage characteristics for float and double.  I'm trying to 
dig into how these are defined now, but it seems from my first look like 
this assumption should always hold.  So what is the configure check for?  
I keep trying to read the M4 code for the configure check, but it's quite 
a mess.

Nothing other than the `Storable` instance seems to make use of the detected 
HTYPE_FLOAT or HTYPE_DOUBLE for anything material (unless there are also 
things which just make assumptions about the nature of the newtype, which is 
possible).

-- 
Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma
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