[Haskell-cafe] heap lifetime question

[Galchin, Vasili]

so Bulat ..

     You seem to be saying what I suspect ... i.e. if an allocaBytes call is
inside a function, when the function is exited then the said heap object is
GC'd??

Regards, Vasili


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Bulat Ziganshin
<bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Vasili,
>
> Thursday, August 7, 2008, 9:13:43 AM, you wrote:
>
> >     What is the lifetime of various heap objects ... e.g. created by
> allocaBytes, alloca, etc?
>
> alloca/allocaBytes just mimicks stack allocation but actually allocates
> buffer in usual heap. this buffer lives while references to it exists
>
> on practice, it's usually gc'ed by next minor GC
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
>
>
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