RE: Accessing ForeignObj contents from Haskell

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,

> > Simon Marlow told that addFinalizer is unsafe. The object can be
> > silently reboxed and then the finalizer can fire much earlier anyway.
> 
> I forgot to mention that addFinalizer on an Addr is unsafe for another
> reason: the Addr is unboxed in Haskell before being passed to a foreign
> function, which leaves a small window where the boxed Addr is unreferenced
> but the Addr# is still required.

With touch it would be ok though, wouldn't it?

Cheers,
Manuel