Re: again: nullForeignPtr

Manuel M T Chakravarty <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.ffi
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Axel Simon <[email protected]> wrote,

> the discussion on ForeignPtrs without finalizers didn't come to a 
> conclusion. I specifically need the nullForeignPtr which was easy enough 
> with the FFI of GHC 5.04:
> 
> newForeignPtr nullPtr (return ())

The discussion came to a conclusion with 

  newForeignPtr_ :: Ptr a -> IO (ForeignPtr a)

being added in RC 11.

Manuel
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