[Haskell-cafe] Calling Haskell from other languages?

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 12:21:39 EST 2008


Hello Colin,

Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 8:09:09 PM, you wrote:

> If I want to call Haskell (and I do, perhaps) from another
> garbage-collected language (Eiffel, in particular) using C as the
> mutually understood language, am I not going to run into big problems?

of course not. there will be two independent heaps. of course you
can't directly send pointers to gc-collected structures between two
languages, they should be converted through buffers in C world
(i.e. malloced ones)


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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