[GHC] #2105: garbage collection confusing in ghci for foreign objects

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#2105: garbage collection confusing in ghci for foreign objects
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 Reporter:  Frederik                  |          Owner:         
     Type:  run-time performance bug  |         Status:  closed 
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:         
Component:  GHCi                      |        Version:  6.8.2  
 Severity:  normal                    |     Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:                            |     Difficulty:  Unknown
 Testcase:                            |   Architecture:  Unknown
       Os:  Unknown                   |  
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Changes (by Frederik):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid

Comment:

 Thanks for the reply, I checked more closely and it turns out that the
 stuff being freed was just temporarily allocated by the 'show' instance.
 The thunk for the named variable is only evaluated once and isn't GC'ed.
 Sorry again!

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2105#comment:2>
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