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[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

> - So, it is decided to nuke AddrOff?

I would do it.

> - mallocArray/mallocBytes Versus mallocElems: Isn't
>   mallocBytes redundant?  mallocArray on Word8 should be the
>   same, shouldn't it?

IMHO it is better to be able to write
    ptr <- mallocBytes (#const sizeof (struct foo))
than
    ptr' <- mallocArray (#const sizeof (struct foo))
    let ptr = castPtr (ptr' :: Ptr Word8)
when the type involved has nothing common with Word8.

> - Why call it `ptrPlusBytes' when there is no other
>   `ptrPlus'? (I could imagine one, which adds multiples of
>   the size of the `a' in `Ptr a'.)

There is one in qforeign:
    indexPtr :: Storable a => Ptr a -> Int -> Ptr a
ptrPlusBytes is the low level system-dependent primitive.
indexPtr is in the system-independent part. Most user code will use
indexPtr, but there are uses for ptrPlusBytes too:
    ptr `ptrPlusBytes` (#const offsetof (struct foo, field_bar))

> - Would `freeHaskellFunPtr' replace
>   `IOExts.freeHaskellFunctionPtr'? 

I would do so (i.e. deprecate Addr functions).

Or maybe call it freeHsFunPtr; "Hs" is used in some other places.

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Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk