Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2005 17:20 schrieb Joel Reymont:
> Is "with" better than allocaBytes?
"with" is just a utility function around "alloca" and "poke", where "alloca"
is another utility function around "allocaBytes". Here the code from the
repository:
with val f =
alloca $ \ptr -> do
poke ptr val
res <- f ptr
return res
(Hmmm, why not simplify the last two lines to just "f ptr"?) GHC does some
tricky things you probably don't want to know about :-) to do something
better for "alloca" than an exception-protected "malloc"/"free" pair.
In a nutshell: "with" is not better than "allocaBytes", it is something
different. "with" can be used to pass a Storable Haskell value in a temporary
memory buffer to a function, while "allocaBytes" only does plain temporary
memory allocation.
Cheers,
S.
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