-- Hoogle documentation, generated by Haddock -- See Hoogle, http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/ -- | Convenience functions for FFI work -- -- Add several functions missing in the standard Foreign modules: -- -- @package missing-foreign @version 0.1.0 -- | Utilities for primitive marshaling module Foreign.Marshal.MissingUtils -- | Uses sizeOf to copy bytes from the second area (source) into -- the first (destination); the copied areas may not overlap copy :: Storable a => Ptr a -> Ptr a -> IO () -- | Uses sizeOf to copy bytes from the second area (source) into -- the first (destination); the copied areas may overlap move :: Storable a => Ptr a -> Ptr a -> IO () -- | The module Foreign.Marshal.Alloc.Calloc provides access to the -- calloc (e.g., allocated 0-initialized chunks of memory outside -- of the Haskell storage manager). -- -- If any of these allocation functions fails, an exception is raised. -- -- The storage allocated is alligned to store any basic foreign types. module Foreign.Marshal.Alloc.Calloc -- | Allocate a block of memory that is sufficient to hold values of type -- a. The size of the area allocated is determined by the -- sizeOf method from the instance of Storable for the -- appropriate type. The memory is initalized to 0. -- -- The memory may be deallocated using free or -- finalizerFree when no longer required. calloc :: Storable a => IO (Ptr a) -- | Allocate a block of memory of the given number of bytes. The block of -- memory is sufficiently aligned for any of the basic foreign tyes that -- fit into a memory block of the allocated size. The memory is -- initialized to 0. -- -- The memory may be deallocated using free or -- finalizerFree when no longer required. callocBytes :: Int -> IO (Ptr a)