Re: Accessing ForeignObj contents from Haskell

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:01:45 +1000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:

> > Assuming that the only finalized things will be ForeignObj, touch can
> > have the type ForeignObj -> IO (). Perhaps it's be more efficient to
> > touch the ForeignObj# inside ForeignObj.
> 
> How about about objects that got a finalizer with addFinalizer?

Simon Marlow told that addFinalizer is unsafe. The object can be
silently reboxed and then the finalizer can fire much earlier anyway.

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