Memory leak in FFI callback: GHC 6.6

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Mon Nov 6 06:23:36 EST 2006


Matthew

Thanks for submitting the Trac bug.  I don't know what the answer to
your qn below is, but maybe someone else on ghc-users does.  Meanwhile,
I added the qn to the bug report.  

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org
[mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org]
| On Behalf Of SevenThunders
| Sent: 03 November 2006 19:04
| To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| Subject: RE: Memory leak in FFI callback: GHC 6.6
| 
| 
| 
| Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| >
| > Dear SevenThunders (if that is how you like to addressed)
| >
| > Thanks for extracting a small program that exhibits the leak; that
is
| > really helpful.  We'll look into it. Would you like to create a Trac
bug
| > and attach your files?
| >
| > Simon
| >
| >
| >
| 
| You can call me Matthew.  The bug, if that's what it is,  is now
ticket
| number 985.  By the way, why can't I get the callback to actually work
in
| this example?  If I for example uncomment the line
| 	-- pd <- cfunc pcf
| 
| and say print out the value of pd,  I get garbage values.
| 
|  Should I have used CDouble?  I think for windows HsDouble = double in
C
| land.
| --
| View this message in context:
http://www.nabble.com/Memory-leak-in-FFI-callback%3A-GHC-6.6-
| tf2565446.html#a7165550
| Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at
Nabble.com.
| 
| _______________________________________________
| Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list
| Glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users


More information about the Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list