Re: [Haskell-cafe] heap lifetime question

so Bulat .. You seem to be saying what I suspect ... i.e. if an allocaBytes call is inside a function, when the function is exited then the said heap object is GC'd?? Regards, Vasili On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

Hello Vasili,

Thursday, August 7, 2008, 9:13:43 AM, you wrote:

...

What is the lifetime of various heap objects ... e.g. created by

allocaBytes, alloca, etc?

alloca/allocaBytes just mimicks stack allocation but actually allocates buffer in usual heap. this buffer lives while references to it exists

on practice, it's usually gc'ed by next minor GC

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