regional-pointers: Regional memory pointers
The library allows you to allocate memory in a region yielding a regional pointer to it. When the region terminates all pointers are automatically freed. Most importantly, a pointer can't be returned from the region. So it's impossible to reference unallocated memory.
The primary technique used in this package is called "Lightweight monadic regions" which was invented by Oleg Kiselyov and Chung-chieh Shan. See:
http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/regions.html#light-weight
This technique is implemented in the regions package which is
re-exported from this library.
This library provides wrappers around all the Ptr functions
from the Foreign.* modules from base.
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.1, 0.1.0.1, 0.1.0.2, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.6.0.1, 0.7 |
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| Dependencies | base (>=4 && <4.3), base-unicode-symbols (>=0.1.1 && <0.3), MonadCatchIO-transformers (>=0.2 && <0.3), regions (>=0.6 && <0.7), transformers (>=0.2 && <0.3) [details] |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | 2010 Bas van Dijk |
| Author | Bas van Dijk |
| Maintainer | Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com> |
| Category | System, Monadic Regions |
| Source repo | head: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/~basvandijk/code/regional-pointers |
| Uploaded | by BasVanDijk at 2010-06-16T09:12:09Z |
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| Reverse Dependencies | 2 direct, 3 indirect [details] |
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