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| author | Oleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus@iki.fi> | 2021-07-10 13:53:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2021-09-22 08:23:08 -0400 |
| commit | 104bf6bfa0d52f6b51992df98dcc17232fc7b75d (patch) | |
| tree | 505761486c597c554ed033be3684714b8f7e7947 | |
| parent | d99fc2508204c59cfc83d8a68718cf930ccc74b2 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-104bf6bfa0d52f6b51992df98dcc17232fc7b75d.tar.gz | |
Clarify that malloc, free etc. are the ones from stdlib.h
| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/base/Foreign/Marshal/Alloc.hs | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/base/Foreign/Marshal/Alloc.hs b/libraries/base/Foreign/Marshal/Alloc.hs index 76398b80a6..3d20393368 100644 --- a/libraries/base/Foreign/Marshal/Alloc.hs +++ b/libraries/base/Foreign/Marshal/Alloc.hs @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ -- aligned for that type. Array allocation routines need to obey the same -- alignment constraints for each array element. -- +-- The underlying implementation is wrapping the @<stdlib.h>@ +-- @malloc@, @realloc@, and @free@. +-- In other words it should be safe to allocate using C-@malloc@, +-- and free memory with 'free' from this module. +-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- module Foreign.Marshal.Alloc ( |