Re: Proposed change to ForeignPtr

Malcolm Wallace wrote (about delayed finalizers):

This was the originally proposed solution for re-entrant finalisers in nhc98 and Hugs. The problem is that, certainly for nhc98, it is nigh impossible for the RTS to identify a "convenient" later moment at which to run the delayed finaliser. Well, if the nhc98 RTS can't work out a time when it will be possible to run the delayed finalizer, how in creation do you expect the Foogle finalizer or whatever Foogle GC process it invokes to do so?