[project @ 2002-10-03 13:29:07 by panne]

[ghc-base.git] / Foreign.hs

diff --git a/Foreign.hs b/Foreign.hs
index 75639e4..15e26db 100644 (file)
--- a/Foreign.hs
+++ b/Foreign.hs
@@ -1,21 +1,16 @@
 {-# OPTIONS -fno-implicit-prelude #-}
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- 
+-- |
 -- Module      :  Foreign
 -- Copyright   :  (c) The FFI task force 2001
--- License     :  BSD-style (see the file libraries/core/LICENSE)
+-- License     :  BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE)
 -- 
 -- Maintainer  :  ffi@haskell.org
--- Stability   :  experimental
--- Portability :  non-portable
---
--- $Id: Foreign.hs,v 1.1 2001/06/28 14:15:01 simonmar Exp $
+-- Stability   :  provisional
+-- Portability :  portable
 --
 -- A collection of data types, classes, and functions for interfacing
--- with another programming language. This is only a convenience module
--- in the future, but currently it has the additional task of hiding
--- those entities exported from other modules, which are not part of the
--- FFI proposal.
+-- with another programming language.
 --
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -30,6 +25,10 @@ module Foreign
        , module Foreign.Marshal.Array
        , module Foreign.Marshal.Error
        , module Foreign.Marshal.Utils
+
+       -- For compatibility with the FFI addendum only.  The recommended
+       -- place to get this from is System.IO.Unsafe.
+       , unsafePerformIO
         ) where
 
 import Data.Int
@@ -42,3 +41,5 @@ import Foreign.Marshal.Alloc
 import Foreign.Marshal.Array
 import Foreign.Marshal.Error
 import Foreign.Marshal.Utils
+
+import System.IO.Unsafe (unsafePerformIO)