[project @ 2001-10-16 10:01:13 by simonmar]
Explicitly sign- or zero-extend the result of a ccall up to the word size if necessary. Recent discussion on glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org suggests that this is the responsibility of the caller rather than the callee. We do it by wrapping the result in narrow{8,16,32}{Int,Word}# as appropriate, at desugaring time, because this way we only have to do it once instead of once per backend. Furthermore the narrowing is exposed to the simplifier which is generally a good thing.
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