"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, unfortunately not. You have foo's finalizer which refers to bar via > a touchForeignPtr. If both foo and bar are unreachable (references from > finalizers don't count), then both foo and bar's finalizers will be > started together, and may run in any order.
I didn't realize the "references from finalizers don't count" rule. What would happen if the finalizer of foo would resurrect bar after bar's finalizer has been run? > So touchForeignPtr does only one thing: it expresses the precise > relationship "bar is alive if foo is alive". If both are not alive, > then both finalizers can run, in any order. So reference counting the objects is the solution? > I realise this is very subtle. By all means suggest improvements to the > docs. Mentioning that references from finalizers don't count could help someone not to repeat my mistakes. - Einar Karttunen _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
