[Haskell-cafe] Why am I not allowed to use CStringLen inforeignexport?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Brian,

Friday, September 22, 2006, 9:03:01 PM, you wrote:

>     withBSTR8 :: [Char] -> (BSTR8 -> IO a) -> IO a
>     withBSTR8 s f =
>         bracket
>             (createBSTR8 s)
>             (\bstr -> free (bstr `plusPtr` (-4)))
>             (\bstr -> f bstr)

this may be shortened to

>     withBSTR8 s =
>         bracket
>             (createBSTR8 s)
>             (\bstr -> free (bstr `plusPtr` (-4)))

my lib contains a tons of such brackets

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com