Really a function like mkWeakIORef should be exposed for STRef's. I know there's supposed to be a patch to normalize various weak'ish things (ekmett?), maybe that function could be added at the same time.

Until then, I would suggesy unpacking the STRef to get at the underlying MutVar#, and copy the IORef code (which IIRC also works on MutVar#) to write the function yourself.

John L.

On 07:56, Mon, Dec 1, 2014 Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks157k@acme.softbase.org> wrote:
Hi,

I need to convert values of types STRef RealWorld a to IORef a in order
to attach finalizers to them. For now, I am using GHC.IORef for this. Is
there a better way to achieve what I want?

All the best,
Wolfgang

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