[Haskell-cafe] ForeignPtr and Garbage Collection

[Matt Cox]

The pointer held in a ForeignPtr is not managed at all by the GC. The
ForeignPtr itself is a GC'd object and runs a finalizer (a function
receiving a pointer) with the value it holds when it is destroyed.

For example, if you allocate a C resource in one foreign call and then
store its value in a foreign pointer, that externally allocated memory it
points to is outside the management of the GC.

Matt


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:50 AM, satvik chauhan <mystic.satvik at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Cafe,
>
> Is it guaranteed that the value of `ForeignPtr` will not be changed (for
> example due to compaction etc) by haskell garbage collector until it goes
> out of scope and finalizer is run.
>
> -Satvik
>
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