https://github.com/fumieval/word-compat

Compatibility shim for GHC's small integer primitives
https://github.com/fumieval/word-compat

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Compatibility shim for GHC's small integer primitives

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fumieval/word-compat
• Owner: fumieval
• Created: 2022-03-18T05:10:10.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-09-28T07:58:44.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-04-10T16:42:55.952Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: haskell
• Language: Haskell
• Homepage: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/word-compat
• Size: 22.5 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md

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# word-compat

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Since GHC 9.2, [Small Word and Int types are now defined in terms of the new primitives with corresponding sizes, not Word# Int#](https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0074-small-primitives.rst).

This broke a (somewhat surprising) number of code, leaving a bunch of packages still behind GHC 9.2.

This package provides pattern synonyms that resemble the old constructors of small Int/Word types, and you can save a lot of work of explicitly writing `wordXXToWord` and `wordToWordXX` for each use site.

Most likely you'll be able to get your code buildable just by replacing `GHC.Word` by `GHC.Word.Compat`.