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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