[Haskell-cafe] Storable types

[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva wrote:

> Hallo fellow Brazilian,
>
> Clerton Filho escreveu:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm newbie in Haskell, and I have some doubts... In this programming
> > language, do we have storable values? Case affirmative, what are the
> > storable types in Haskell, and how can I implement then...
>
>      What exactly is a storable type?

I guess you mean:
  http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Foreign-Storable.html

A type becomes storable by implementing the Storable methods, namely
sizeOf, aligment, peek, poke. To this end you can convert to and access
the Storable methods of CInt, CDouble and friends.