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qrczak authored
Now Char, Char#, StgChar have 31 bits (physically 32). "foo"# is still an array of bytes. CharRep represents 32 bits (on a 64-bit arch too). There is also Int8Rep, used in those places where bytes were originally meant. readCharArray, indexCharOffAddr etc. still use bytes. Storable and {I,M}Array use wide Chars. In future perhaps all sized integers should be primitive types. Then some usages of indexing primops scattered through the code could be changed to then-available Int8 ones, and then Char variants of primops could be made wide (other usages that handle text should use conversion that will be provided later). I/O and _ccall_ arguments assume ISO-8859-1. UTF-8 is internally used for string literals (only). Z-encoding is ready for Unicode identifiers. Ranges of intlike and charlike closures are more easily configurable. I've probably broken nativeGen/MachCode.lhs:chrCode for Alpha but I don't know the Alpha assembler to fix it (what is zapnot?). Generally I'm not sure if I've done the NCG changes right. This commit breaks the binary compatibility (of course). TODO: * is* and to{Lower,Upper} in Char (in progress). * Libraries for text conversion (in design / experiments), to be plugged to I/O and a higher level foreign library. * PackedString. * StringBuffer and accepting source in encodings other than ISO-8859-1.
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