GHC.Pack

Portability	non-portable (GHC Extensions)
Stability	internal
Maintainer	cvs-ghc@haskell.org

Description

This module provides a small set of low-level functions for packing and unpacking a chunk of bytes. Used by code emitted by the compiler plus the prelude libraries.

The programmer level view of packed strings is provided by a GHC system library PackedString.

Documentation

packCString# :: [Char] -> ByteArray#

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unpackCString :: Ptr a -> [Char]

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unpackCString# :: Addr# -> [Char]

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unpackNBytes# :: Addr# -> Int# -> [Char]

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unpackFoldrCString# :: Addr# -> (Char -> a -> a) -> a -> a

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unpackAppendCString# :: Addr# -> [Char] -> [Char]

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