[commit: base] master: Generalize the type of Foreign.Marshal.Utils.maybeNew; fixes trac #5044 (b27b90f)

3 Apr 2011

Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/packages/base

On branch  : master

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/b27b90f0e55518313d9611fbc4381b...
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commit b27b90f0e55518313d9611fbc4381b4b73121975
Author: Ian Lynagh 
Date:   Sun Apr 3 14:55:50 2011 +0100

    Generalize the type of Foreign.Marshal.Utils.maybeNew; fixes trac #5044
    
    git conversion of:
    Tue Mar  8 22:31:07 CET 2011  Bas van Dijk 
      * Generalize the type of Foreign.Marshal.Utils.maybeNew
      This makes it consistent with maybeWith
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Foreign/Marshal/Utils.hs |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Foreign/Marshal/Utils.hs b/Foreign/Marshal/Utils.hs
index 5ae677a..bf9bdb3 100644
--- a/Foreign/Marshal/Utils.hs
+++ b/Foreign/Marshal/Utils.hs
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ toBool  = (/= 0)
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 -- * the 'nullPtr' is used to represent 'Nothing'
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-maybeNew :: (      a -> IO (Ptr a))
-         -> (Maybe a -> IO (Ptr a))
+maybeNew :: (      a -> IO (Ptr b))
+         -> (Maybe a -> IO (Ptr b))
 maybeNew  = maybe (return nullPtr)
 
 -- |Converts a @withXXX@ combinator into one marshalling a value wrapped

    