UnsafeCString

Manuel M. T. Chakravarty chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Thu Aug 9 20:49:20 EDT 2001


"Simon Marlow" <simonmar at microsoft.com> wrote,

> As of yesterday, GHC's implementation of MarshalAlloc.allocaBytes is now
> based on ByteArrays, and is much faster.  Since this effectively removes
> the reason for having UnsafeCString, and since there was some objection
> to it in the first place, I propose to remove it.  Any objections?

Sounds good to me.

BTW, after another teaching-enforced break, there'll be an
update of the FFI definition soon.  I am currently
integrating all the FFI libraries.

Cheers,
Manuel




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