-- it no longer does so. May need to adjust isFFIDotNetTy
-- if we do want to look through newtypes.
-isFFIDotnetObjTy ty =
- let
+isFFIDotnetObjTy ty
+ = checkRepTyCon check_tc t_ty
+ where
(_, t_ty) = tcSplitForAllTys ty
- in
- case tcSplitTyConApp_maybe (repType t_ty) of
- Just (tc, [arg_ty]) | getName tc == objectTyConName -> True
- _ -> False
+ check_tc tc = getName tc == objectTyConName
toDNType :: Type -> DNType
toDNType ty
= isUnLiftedTyCon tc || boxedMarshalableTyCon tc || tc == unitTyCon
marshalableTyCon dflags tc
- = (dopt Opt_UnliftedFFITypes dflags && isUnLiftedTyCon tc)
+ = (dopt Opt_UnliftedFFITypes dflags
+ && isUnLiftedTyCon tc
+ && case tyConPrimRep tc of -- Note [Marshalling VoidRep]
+ VoidRep -> False
+ other -> True)
|| boxedMarshalableTyCon tc
boxedMarshalableTyCon tc
, boolTyConKey
]
\end{code}
+
+Note [Marshalling VoidRep]
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+We don't treat State# (whose PrimRep is VoidRep) as marshalable.
+In turn that means you can't write
+ foreign import foo :: Int -> State# RealWorld
+
+Reason: the back end falls over with panic "primRepHint:VoidRep";
+ and there is no compelling reason to permit it