tracing segfaults with FFI

[Gaal Yahas]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:36:35PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >    thawNode nodePtr = do
> >        deRefStablePtr (castPtrToStablePtr nodePtr)
> 
> You're attempting to deref the StablePtr, and also run it as an IO 
> action!  I bet the original value wasn't an IO action, right?
> 
> You probably want something like
> 
>      thawNode nodePtr = do
>         node <- deRefStablePtr (castPtrToStablePtr nodePtr)
>         -- and do something with node here
> 
> in general, try to keep as much type information as possible.  That is, 
> avoid the use of castPtrToStablePtr and its inverse, by giving correct 
> types to your FFI functions (you haven't shown more of the code so I 
> don't know if this applies in your case).

The code is at http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/src/Data/Yaml/Syck.hsc .

parseYaml works, as does its usage of freezeNode. readNode is slightly
different than thawNode; it gets its pointer from an out variable in
syck_lookup_sym.

Note that readNode also returns an IO YamlNode. How is it correct to do
so there?

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