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Foreign.Marshal.Pool

Portability | portable
Stability | provisional
Maintainer | sven_panne@yahoo.com

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Pool management
(Re-)Allocation within a pool
Combined allocation and marshalling

Description
This module contains support for pooled memory management. Under this scheme, (re-)allocations belong to a given pool, and everything in a pool is deallocated when the pool itself is deallocated. This is useful when `alloca` with its implicit allocation and deallocation is not flexible enough, but explicit uses of `malloc` and `free` are too awkward.
Synopsis

data Pool
newPool :: IO Pool
freePool :: Pool -> IO ()
withPool :: (Pool -> IO b) -> IO b
pooledMalloc :: Storable a => Pool -> IO (Ptr a)
pooledMallocBytes :: Pool -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
pooledRealloc :: Storable a => Pool -> Ptr a -> IO (Ptr a)
pooledReallocBytes :: Pool -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
pooledMallocArray :: Storable a => Pool -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
pooledMallocArray0 :: Storable a => Pool -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
pooledReallocArray :: Storable a => Pool -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
pooledReallocArray0 :: Storable a => Pool -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
pooledNew :: Storable a => Pool -> a -> IO (Ptr a)
pooledNewArray :: Storable a => Pool -> [a] -> IO (Ptr a)
pooledNewArray0 :: Storable a => Pool -> a -> [a] -> IO (Ptr a)

Pool management
data Pool

A memory pool.

newPool :: IO Pool
Allocate a fresh memory pool.
freePool :: Pool -> IO ()
Deallocate a memory pool and everything which has been allocated in the pool itself.
withPool :: (Pool -> IO b) -> IO b
Execute an action with a fresh memory pool, which gets automatically deallocated (including its contents) after the action has finished.
(Re-)Allocation within a pool
pooledMalloc :: Storable a => Pool -> IO (Ptr a)
Allocate space for storable type in the given pool. The size of the area allocated is determined by the `sizeOf` method from the instance of `Storable` for the appropriate type.
pooledMallocBytes :: Pool -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
Allocate the given number of bytes of storage in the pool.
pooledRealloc :: Storable a => Pool -> Ptr a -> IO (Ptr a)
Adjust the storage area for an element in the pool to the given size of the required type.
pooledReallocBytes :: Pool -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
Adjust the storage area for an element in the pool to the given size.
pooledMallocArray :: Storable a => Pool -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
Allocate storage for the given number of elements of a storable type in the pool.
pooledMallocArray0 :: Storable a => Pool -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
Allocate storage for the given number of elements of a storable type in the pool, but leave room for an extra element to signal the end of the array.
pooledReallocArray :: Storable a => Pool -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
Adjust the size of an array in the given pool.
pooledReallocArray0 :: Storable a => Pool -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO (Ptr a)
Adjust the size of an array with an end marker in the given pool.
Combined allocation and marshalling
pooledNew :: Storable a => Pool -> a -> IO (Ptr a)
Allocate storage for a value in the given pool and marshal the value into this storage.
pooledNewArray :: Storable a => Pool -> [a] -> IO (Ptr a)
Allocate consecutive storage for a list of values in the given pool and marshal these values into it.
pooledNewArray0 :: Storable a => Pool -> a -> [a] -> IO (Ptr a)
Allocate consecutive storage for a list of values in the given pool and marshal these values into it, terminating the end with the given marker.
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