[Haskell-cafe] sizeOf on a type

[Gregory Crosswhite]

Yay, advancePtr is exactly what I needed!  I totally missed that one in the docs.

Also thanks to those of you who pointed me to the scoped type variables feature, since I had figured that a feature liked that had to exist but I just didn't know where to look for it.

You guys rock!

Cheers,
Greg


On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Patai Gergely wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> I would like to write a routine like
>> 
>> 	nextPtr :: Storable a => Ptr a -> Ptr a
>> 	nextPtr = (`plusPtr` sizeOf (undefined :: a))
>> 
>> which increments a pointer by the correct amount, but
>> GHC complains that the type variable "a" is ambiguous.
> 
> Maybe Foreign.Marshal.Array.advancePtr is what you really need in this
> case.
> 
> Gergely
> 
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