newForeignPtr

[Malcolm Wallace]

"Simon Marlow" <simonmar at microsoft.com> writes:

> > However, only Hugs implements this part of the spec at the moment.
> 
> It will be implemented in GHC before the next major release.  I'm not
> intentionally dragging my heels on this one, just haven't got around to
> it yet :-)

And of course the ghc-5.04 branch will keep the existing (non-standard)
signature, because there are no API changes permitted in bug-fix releases.

Regards,
    Malcolm