Re: GHC.Prim.ByteArray# - confusing documentation

On 24/12/09 23:18, Antoine Latter wrote:

Folks,

I found some of the documentation in GHC.Prim confusing - so I thought I'd share. The documentation for the ByteArray# type[1] explains that's it's a raw region in memory that also remembers it's size.

Consequently I expected sizeOfByteArray# to return the same number that I passed in to newByteArray#. But it doesn't - It returned however much it decided to allocate, which on my platform is always a multiple of four bytes.

This is something which could be clarified in the documentation.

Thanks, I'll fix the docs. Cheers, Simon