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authorGravatar Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>2016-01-31 17:04:25 +0100
committerGravatar Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>2016-01-31 17:04:25 +0100
commitff1c16d4ee0c4ca043bd99a5d6741ea2d53e7000 (patch)
tree229cafe6ccee197123e8f97a375efdeebcd31a50
parent12799d0fc7dcff0dc95640b1efad0637ad011144 (diff)
Add comment regarding genericRaise use
-rw-r--r--System/Posix/Signals.hsc3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/System/Posix/Signals.hsc b/System/Posix/Signals.hsc
index 222911a..971973e 100644
--- a/System/Posix/Signals.hsc
+++ b/System/Posix/Signals.hsc
@@ -290,6 +290,9 @@ foreign import ccall unsafe "killpg"
raiseSignal :: Signal -> IO ()
raiseSignal sig = throwErrnoIfMinus1_ "raiseSignal" (c_raise sig)
+-- See also note in GHC's rts/RtsUtils.c
+-- This is somewhat fragile because we need to keep the
+-- `#if`-conditional in sync with GHC's runtime.
#if (defined(openbsd_HOST_OS) || defined(freebsd_HOST_OS) || defined(dragonfly_HOST_OS) || defined(netbsd_HOST_OS) || defined(darwin_HOST_OS))
foreign import ccall unsafe "genericRaise"
c_raise :: CInt -> IO CInt