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- Foreign calls
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-
-The interesting thing about @ccall@ is that it is just a template
-which we instantiate by filling in details about the types of its
-argument and result (ie minimal typechecking is performed). So, the
-basic story is that we allocate a load of type variables (to hold the
-arg/result types); unify them with the args/result; and store them for
-later use.
-
-\begin{code}
-tcMonoExpr e0@(HsCCall lbl args may_gc is_casm ignored_fake_result_ty) res_ty
-
- = getDOpts `thenM` \ dflags ->
-
- checkTc (not (is_casm && dopt_HscLang dflags /= HscC))
- (vcat [text "_casm_ is only supported when compiling via C (-fvia-C).",
- text "Either compile with -fvia-C, or, better, rewrite your code",
- text "to use the foreign function interface. _casm_s are deprecated",
- text "and support for them may one day disappear."])
- `thenM_`
-
- -- Get the callable and returnable classes.
- tcLookupClass cCallableClassName `thenM` \ cCallableClass ->
- tcLookupClass cReturnableClassName `thenM` \ cReturnableClass ->
- tcLookupTyCon ioTyConName `thenM` \ ioTyCon ->
- let
- new_arg_dict (arg, arg_ty)
- = newDicts (CCallOrigin (unpackFS lbl) (Just arg))
- [mkClassPred cCallableClass [arg_ty]] `thenM` \ arg_dicts ->
- returnM arg_dicts -- Actually a singleton bag
-
- result_origin = CCallOrigin (unpackFS lbl) Nothing {- Not an arg -}
- in
-
- -- Arguments
- let tv_idxs | null args = []
- | otherwise = [1..length args]
- in
- newTyVarTys (length tv_idxs) openTypeKind `thenM` \ arg_tys ->
- tcMonoExprs args arg_tys `thenM` \ args' ->
-
- -- The argument types can be unlifted or lifted; the result
- -- type must, however, be lifted since it's an argument to the IO
- -- type constructor.
- newTyVarTy liftedTypeKind `thenM` \ result_ty ->
- let
- io_result_ty = mkTyConApp ioTyCon [result_ty]
- in
- unifyTauTy res_ty io_result_ty `thenM_`
-
- -- Construct the extra insts, which encode the
- -- constraints on the argument and result types.
- mappM new_arg_dict (zipEqual "tcMonoExpr:CCall" args arg_tys) `thenM` \ ccarg_dicts_s ->
- newDicts result_origin [mkClassPred cReturnableClass [result_ty]] `thenM` \ ccres_dict ->
- extendLIEs (ccres_dict ++ concat ccarg_dicts_s) `thenM_`
- returnM (HsCCall lbl args' may_gc is_casm io_result_ty)