#7300: Allow CAFs kept reachable by FFI to be forcibly made unreachable for GC
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Reporter: absence | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1
Component: Compiler (FFI) | Version: 7.4.1
Keywords: unsafe caf gc | Os: Unknown/Multiple
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: Runtime performance bug
Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase:
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Comment(by simonmar):
Replying to [comment:2 ezyang]:
> Of course, revertCAFs only works when the linker sets up CAFs with
newDynCAF...
Spot on.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7300#comment:3>
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