[Haskell-cafe] FFI Query: How to free a CString allocated in Haskell

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:45 , Verma Anurag-VNF673 wrote:
> A naïve question I have now after reading your mail. How do I call  
> MarshallAlloc.free from my C code because that's where I need to  
> free it?

Provide a Haskell wrapper function to deallocate / free it, as a  
parallel to the function that allocates and returns it to the C code.

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