exercising the storage manager

[Peter Gammie]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Simon Marlow wrote:

> Does anyone else think that foreignPtrToPtr should really be called
> unsafeForeignPtrToPtr?

I was actually advocating that it be disposed of, but thought that would
be too forward of me. What use is it without touchForeignPtr, and if the
latter depends on strictness anyway, how many uses of it are safe and
aren't captured by withForeignPtr?

cheers
peter