| Copyright | (c) The University of Glasgow 2001 |
|---|---|
| License | BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) |
| Maintainer | [email protected] |
| Stability | experimental |
| Portability | non-portable (uses Data.Array.MArray) |
| Safe Haskell | None |
| Language | Haskell2010 |
A storable array is an IO-mutable array which stores its contents in a contiguous memory block living in the C heap. Elements are stored according to the class Storable. You can obtain the pointer to the array contents to manipulate elements from languages like C.
It is similar to IOUArray but slower. Its advantage is that it's compatible with C.
data StorableArray i e Source
The array type
| Storable e => MArray StorableArray e IO |
Module Data.Array.MArray provides the interface of storable arrays. They are instances of class MArray (with the IO monad).
module Data.Array.MArray
withStorableArray :: StorableArray i e -> (Ptr e -> IO a) -> IO a Source
The pointer to the array contents is obtained by withStorableArray. The idea is similar to ForeignPtr (used internally here). The pointer should be used only during execution of the IO action retured by the function passed as argument to withStorableArray.
touchStorableArray :: StorableArray i e -> IO () Source
If you want to use it afterwards, ensure that you touchStorableArray after the last use of the pointer, so the array is not freed too early.
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