base-4.3.0.0: Basic libraries

Portabilityportable
Stabilityprovisional
Maintainerffi@haskell.org

Foreign.C.Types

Contents

Description

Mapping of C types to corresponding Haskell types.

Synopsis

Representations of C types

These types are needed to accurately represent C function prototypes, in order to access C library interfaces in Haskell. The Haskell system is not required to represent those types exactly as C does, but the following guarantees are provided concerning a Haskell type CT representing a C type t:

  • If a C function prototype has t as an argument or result type, the use of CT in the corresponding position in a foreign declaration permits the Haskell program to access the full range of values encoded by the C type; and conversely, any Haskell value for CT has a valid representation in C.
  • sizeOf (Prelude.undefined :: CT) will yield the same value as sizeof (t) in C.
  • alignment (Prelude.undefined :: CT) matches the alignment constraint enforced by the C implementation for t.
  • The members peek and poke of the Storable class map all values of CT to the corresponding value of t and vice versa.
  • When an instance of Prelude.Bounded is defined for CT, the values of Prelude.minBound and Prelude.maxBound coincide with t_MIN and t_MAX in C.
  • When an instance of Prelude.Eq or Prelude.Ord is defined for CT, the predicates defined by the type class implement the same relation as the corresponding predicate in C on t.
  • When an instance of Prelude.Num, Prelude.Read, Prelude.Integral, Prelude.Fractional, Prelude.Floating, Prelude.RealFrac, or Prelude.RealFloat is defined for CT, the arithmetic operations defined by the type class implement the same function as the corresponding arithmetic operations (if available) in C on t.
  • When an instance of Bits is defined for CT, the bitwise operation defined by the type class implement the same function as the corresponding bitwise operation in C on t.

Integral types

These types are are represented as newtypes of types in Data.Int and Data.Word, and are instances of Prelude.Eq, Prelude.Ord, Prelude.Num, Prelude.Read, Prelude.Show, Prelude.Enum, Typeable, Storable, Prelude.Bounded, Prelude.Real, Prelude.Integral and Bits.

data CChar Source

Haskell type representing the C char type.

Instances

data CSChar Source

Haskell type representing the C signed char type.

Instances

data CUChar Source

Haskell type representing the C unsigned char type.

Instances

data CShort Source

Haskell type representing the C short type.

Instances

data CUShort Source

Haskell type representing the C unsigned short type.

Instances

data CInt Source

Haskell type representing the C int type.

Instances

data CUInt Source

Haskell type representing the C unsigned int type.

Instances

data CLong Source

Haskell type representing the C long type.

Instances

data CULong Source

Haskell type representing the C unsigned long type.

Instances

data CPtrdiff Source

Haskell type representing the C ptrdiff_t type.

Instances

data CSize Source

Haskell type representing the C size_t type.

Instances

data CWchar Source

Haskell type representing the C wchar_t type.

Instances

data CSigAtomic Source

Haskell type representing the C sig_atomic_t type.

Instances

data CLLong Source

Haskell type representing the C long long type.

Instances

data CULLong Source

Haskell type representing the C unsigned long long type.

Instances

data CIntPtr Source

Instances

data CUIntPtr Source

Instances

data CIntMax Source

Instances

data CUIntMax Source

Instances

Numeric types

These types are are represented as newtypes of basic foreign types, and are instances of Prelude.Eq, Prelude.Ord, Prelude.Num, Prelude.Read, Prelude.Show, Prelude.Enum, Typeable and Storable.

data CClock Source

Haskell type representing the C clock_t type.

Instances

data CTime Source

Haskell type representing the C time_t type.

Instances

To convert CTime to Data.Time.UTCTime, use the following formula: 

  posixSecondsToUTCTime (realToFrac :: POSIXTime)

Floating types

These types are are represented as newtypes of Prelude.Float and Prelude.Double, and are instances of Prelude.Eq, Prelude.Ord, Prelude.Num, Prelude.Read, Prelude.Show, Prelude.Enum, Typeable, Storable, Prelude.Real, Prelude.Fractional, Prelude.Floating, Prelude.RealFrac and Prelude.RealFloat.

data CFloat Source

Haskell type representing the C float type.

Instances

data CDouble Source

Haskell type representing the C double type.

Instances

Other types

data CFile Source

Haskell type representing the C FILE type.

data CFpos Source

Haskell type representing the C fpos_t type.

data CJmpBuf Source

Haskell type representing the C jmp_buf type.