Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
> Really? 'ByteArray Int' (and its mutable companion) is still
> available, but only if the user can guarantee that the 'import'ed
> call does not end up causing a GC, i.e., the following should work
>
> foreign import unsafe splat :: ByteArray Int -> IO ()
>
> the "unsafe" bit being the vital piece of info.
Ooops, I forgot. :-} There was quite some mail traffic around this
topic...
> At least this was the story for 4.045, so unless 4.06 behaves
> differently (I doubt it), you can still use ByteArrays.
OK, but (Mutable)ByteArrays are so easy to implement given FFI (for
creation/access) + Foreign(Obj) (for finalization), that the effort
for maintaining, documenting, etc. them is at least a little bit
doubtful. "Make it simple!" :-)
Cheers,
Sven
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