[Haskell-cafe] Copying Arrays

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Duncan,

Thursday, May 29, 2008, 10:57:02 PM, you wrote:

> We cannot use memcpy because it operates on raw pointers but that's no
> good for a movable heap object like a ByteArr#.

it's false assumption - memcpy is used for copying non-pinned arrays
as in the code from Data.Array.Base i've citated. the idea is that
GC shouldn't occur between getting array address and actual memcpy
call. you may consult Simon Marlow

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com