Cyril Schmidt wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
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i think we should define "secret door" to construct StorableArray from a pointer to allow to use full power of MArray interface on foreign arrays
You mean this?
-- |Construct a 'StorableArray' from an arbitrary 'ForeignPtr'. It is -- the caller's responsibility to ensure that the 'ForeignPtr' points to -- an area of memory sufficient for the specified bounds. unsafeForeignPtrToStorableArray :: ForeignPtr e -> (i,i) -> IO (StorableArray i e)
It looks like this function is not available in GHC 6.4.1 (see http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.4.1/html/libraries/base/Data-Array-Storabl... )
It is, however, documented at http://www.haskell.org/HOpenGL/newAPI/base/Foreign-Storable.html but I don't know which version of GHC it applies to.
Yes, it's new since 6.4.x. It will be in 6.6. Cheers, Simon