[Haskell-cafe] heap lifetime question

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Vasili,

Thursday, August 7, 2008, 9:13:43 AM, you wrote:

>     What is the lifetime of various heap objects ... e.g. created by allocaBytes, alloca, etc?

alloca/allocaBytes just mimicks stack allocation but actually allocates
buffer in usual heap. this buffer lives while references to it exists

on practice, it's usually gc'ed by next minor GC

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