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Foreign.Marshal.Utils
Portabilityportable
Stabilityprovisional
Maintainerffi@haskell.org
Contents
General marshalling utilities
Combined allocation and marshalling
Marshalling of Boolean values (non-zero corresponds to True)
Marshalling of Maybe values
Marshalling lists of storable objects
Haskellish interface to memcpy and memmove
DEPRECATED FUNCTIONS (don't use; they may disappear at any time)
Description
Utilities for primitive marshaling
Synopsis
with :: Storable a => a -> (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b
new :: Storable a => a -> IO (Ptr a)
fromBool :: Num a => Bool -> a
toBool :: Num a => a -> Bool
maybeNew :: (a -> IO (Ptr a)) -> Maybe a -> IO (Ptr a)
maybeWith :: (a -> (Ptr b -> IO c) -> IO c) -> Maybe a -> (Ptr b -> IO c) -> IO c
maybePeek :: (Ptr a -> IO b) -> Ptr a -> IO (Maybe b)
withMany :: (a -> (b -> res) -> res) -> [a] -> ([b] -> res) -> res
copyBytes :: Ptr a -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO ()
moveBytes :: Ptr a -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO ()
withObject :: Storable a => a -> (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b
General marshalling utilities
Combined allocation and marshalling
with :: Storable a => a -> (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b

with val f executes the computation f, passing as argument a pointer to a temporarily allocated block of memory into which val has been marshalled (the combination of alloca and poke).

The memory is freed when f terminates (either normally or via an exception), so the pointer passed to f must not be used after this.

new :: Storable a => a -> IO (Ptr a)

Allocate a block of memory and marshal a value into it (the combination of malloc and poke). The size of the area allocated is determined by the sizeOf method from the instance of Storable for the appropriate type.

The memory may be deallocated using free or finalizerFree when no longer required.

Marshalling of Boolean values (non-zero corresponds to True)
fromBool :: Num a => Bool -> a
Convert a Haskell Bool to its numeric representation
toBool :: Num a => a -> Bool
Convert a Boolean in numeric representation to a Haskell value
Marshalling of Maybe values
maybeNew :: (a -> IO (Ptr a)) -> Maybe a -> IO (Ptr a)

Allocate storage and marshall a storable value wrapped into a Maybe

maybeWith :: (a -> (Ptr b -> IO c) -> IO c) -> Maybe a -> (Ptr b -> IO c) -> IO c
Converts a withXXX combinator into one marshalling a value wrapped into a Maybe, using nullPtr to represent Nothing.
maybePeek :: (Ptr a -> IO b) -> Ptr a -> IO (Maybe b)
Convert a peek combinator into a one returning Nothing if applied to a nullPtr
Marshalling lists of storable objects
withMany :: (a -> (b -> res) -> res) -> [a] -> ([b] -> res) -> res
Replicates a withXXX combinator over a list of objects, yielding a list of marshalled objects
Haskellish interface to memcpy and memmove
(argument order: destination, source)
copyBytes :: Ptr a -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO ()
Copies the given number of bytes from the second area (source) into the first (destination); the copied areas may not overlap
moveBytes :: Ptr a -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO ()
Copies the given number of elements from the second area (source) into the first (destination); the copied areas may overlap
DEPRECATED FUNCTIONS (don't use; they may disappear at any time)
withObject :: Storable a => a -> (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b
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