George Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However in the case I cited it isn't particularly important to execute
> the callback at once. If calling Haskell at arbitrary times is
> unimplementable, could there instead be some way of some way like
> "wrapper" of exporting a Haskell function[args] -> IO () so that the
> resulting C function, when executed, merely registers the Haskell action
> to be executed as soon as the Haskell RTS finds it convenient, rather
> than at once?
This was the originally proposed solution for re-entrant finalisers
in nhc98 and Hugs. The problem is that, certainly for nhc98, it is
nigh impossible for the RTS to identify a "convenient" later moment
at which to run the delayed finaliser.
Regards,
Malcolm
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