Re: Proposed change to ForeignPtr

Alastair Reid wrote [snip]

We should provide a C function hs_freeStablePtr and explicitly say that it is safe to call this from inside a finalizer. [snip] This would be the simplest solution, but would not permit you to do anything more sophisticated at the Haskell side, such as reference counting or more complicated strategies to check for possible cycles. You might end up having to do all your inter-language GC code in C, ugh.