Support for Complex Double in Foreign Function Interface
Currently the FFI only permits BASIC return types like Double, Int, Bool, etc., but NOT Complex Double (only slightly non-basic!). This makes it impossible to import a Fortran function (not subroutine) that returns a complex value. Adding support for Complex Double would make it easier to interface to external libs like BLAS and LAPACK; without this support wrapper C libs must be used, and these are not standardized (the Haskell package hs-linear-algebra currently has some problems related to this).
Thus adding Foreign support for Complex Double (not just through Ptr) would open up access to a large collection of external Fortran libs for the Haskell community. Currently I get the message "Unacceptable return type in FFI" when I try to return IO (ComplexType).
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Version | 7.6.3 |
Type | FeatureRequest |
TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
Priority | normal |
Resolution | Unresolved |
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