GHC.Packing.Core

Wrapper module for the foreign primitive operations

Documentation

trySerialize :: a -> IO (Serialized a)

Serialises its argument (in current evaluation state, as a thunk). May block if the argument captures (blackhole'd) data under evaluation, may throw PackExceptions to signal errors. This version uses a default buffer of 10MB (see trySerializeWith for a version with flexible buffer size).

trySerializeWith :: a -> Int -> IO (Serialized a)

Extended serialisation interface: Allocates a buffer of given size (in bytes), serialises data into it, then truncates the buffer to the required size before returning it (as Serialized a)

deserialize :: Serialized a -> IO a

Deserialisation function. May throw PackException P_GARBLED