Re: Handle to haskell data

Fergus Henderson <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Dec 2003 08:47:28 +1100

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On 30-Nov-2003, David Waern <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi. I want to know if it is possible via FFI and GHC to allocate
> haskell data structures and return some kind of handle to their internal
> representation in the haskell runtime to another language that calls
> haskell code (c/c++).

I haven't tried it myself, but I think the answer is yes:
use the StablePtr type, which in C is the HsStablePtr typedef in "HsFFI.h".

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