#8627: mallocForeignPtrBytes documentation unobvious regarding memory alignment ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: schernichkin | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Documentation | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Type of failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ------------------------------------+------------------------------------- According to the current documentation: mallocForeignPtr - is equivalent to do { p <- malloc; newForeignPtr finalizerFree p }. It's ok since we can read that the "block of memory is sufficiently aligned" if the mallocBytes function descriprion and newAlignedPinnedByteArray in the function implementation. mallocForeignPtrBytes - "similar to mallocForeignPtr" but will it alloc aligned memory? Internally it uses newPinnedByteArray which implies memory will not be aligned, but does it really makes any sense? Plz correct documentation to make it more obvious. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8627 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler