ANN: H98 FFI Addendum 1.0, Release Candidate 10
Simon Marlow
simonmar at microsoft.com
Mon Jun 2 07:48:13 EDT 2003
> I don't think we have much choice about whether undefined
> values are part of
> the type. If you can create a value of that type:
>
> x <- derefPtr (px :: Ptr T)
I'm not following this. what exactly is derefPtr? The only analogous
function I can think of is Foreign.peek:
peek :: Storable a => Ptr a -> IO a
but peek will unmarshal the value at the end of the Ptr into T, so T
cannot be abstract.
Cheers,
Simon
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