More Finaliser Trouble

[Fergus Henderson]

On 13-Jul-2003, Wolfgang Thaller <wolfgang.thaller at gmx.net> wrote:
> Daan Leijen <daanleijen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> >(allthough it doesn't answer the question of  [...] how to add parameters 
> >to the new newForeignPtr function,)
> 
> Should there perhaps be something like ...
> 
> newForeignPtrWithUserData :: Ptr a -> Ptr b -> FunPtr (Ptr a -> Ptr b -> IO 
> ()) -> IO (ForeignPtr a)
> 
> ... where the second argument is a "userData" pointer that gets passed on 
> to the finalizer?

IMHO yes!

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