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

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 01:20:46PM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> 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.

If you're able to tidy it up, please do send a patch.

Do you know why the test is failing?


Thanks
Ian