FFI calls: is it possible to allocate a small memory block on a stack?

[Denys Rtveliashvili]

Bertram,

It appears that I am on 6.12.
Strange, as I thought I have check-out the HEAD by following the
instructions on the wiki:


        darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc


The wiki does not tell explicitly what will be checked out, so I
expected it to be HEAD.

With kind regards,
Denys Rtveliashvili


> Denys Rtveliashvili wrote:
> > OK, the code I have checked out from the repository contains this in
> > "rts/sm/Storage.h":
> [global pinned_object_block variable]
> 
> Odd. This was changed in ghc head by a patch dating Dec 1st 2009:
> 
> Tue Dec  1 17:03:21 CET 2009  Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
>   * Make allocatePinned use local storage, and other refactorings
>   
>   This is a batch of refactoring to remove some of the GC's global
>   state, as we move towards CPU-local GC.  
> ...
>     - allocatePinned() was still allocating from global storage and
>       taking a lock each time, now it uses local storage. 
>       (mallocForeignPtrBytes should be faster with -threaded).
> ...
> 
> which turned pinned_object_block into a per-capability variable.
> 
> So which version of ghc are you looking at?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Bertram
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