malloc

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 may be deallocated using free or finalizerFree when no longer required.

Lifted malloc.

Allocates nBytes bytes of memory. If nBytes is 0 it returns Nothing. If the allocation fails (because the system is out of memory), the program is terminated.

Allocate amount * sizeof(tp) bytes on the heap * tp: LlvmType to reserve room for * amount: The nr of tp's which must be allocated

Allocate some memory and return a ForeignPtr to it. The memory will be released automatically when the ForeignPtr is discarded. mallocForeignPtr is equivalent to

do { p <- malloc; newForeignPtr finalizerFree p }

although it may be implemented differently internally: you may not assume that the memory returned by mallocForeignPtr has been allocated with malloc. GHC notes: mallocForeignPtr has a heavily optimised implementation in GHC. It uses pinned memory in the garbage collected heap, so the ForeignPtr does not require a finalizer to free the memory. Use of mallocForeignPtr and associated functions is strongly recommended in preference to newForeignPtr with a finalizer.

This function is similar to mallocArray, but yields a memory area that has a finalizer attached that releases the memory area. As with mallocForeignPtr, it is not guaranteed that the block of memory was allocated by malloc.

This function is similar to mallocArray0, but yields a memory area that has a finalizer attached that releases the memory area. As with mallocForeignPtr, it is not guaranteed that the block of memory was allocated by malloc.

This function is similar to mallocForeignPtr, except that the size of the memory required is given explicitly as a number of bytes.

Allocate a block of memory of the given number of bytes. The block of memory is sufficiently aligned for any of the basic foreign types that fits into a memory block of the allocated size. The memory may be deallocated using free or finalizerFree when no longer required.

Allocate storage for the given number of elements of a storable type (like malloc, but for multiple elements).

Like mallocArray, but add an extra position to hold a special termination element.

This function is similar to mallocForeignPtrBytes, except that the size and alignment of the memory required is given explicitly as numbers of bytes.

Allocate some memory and return a ForeignPtr to it. The memory will be released automatically when the ForeignPtr is discarded. GHC notes: mallocPlainForeignPtr has a heavily optimised implementation in GHC. It uses pinned memory in the garbage collected heap, as for mallocForeignPtr. Unlike mallocForeignPtr, a ForeignPtr created with mallocPlainForeignPtr carries no finalizers. It is not possible to add a finalizer to a ForeignPtr created with mallocPlainForeignPtr. This is useful for ForeignPtrs that will live only inside Haskell (such as those created for packed strings). Attempts to add a finalizer to a ForeignPtr created this way, or to finalize such a pointer, will throw an exception.

This function is similar to mallocForeignPtrAlignedBytes, except that the internally an optimised ForeignPtr representation with no finalizer is used. Attempts to add a finalizer will cause an exception to be thrown.

This function is similar to mallocForeignPtrBytes, except that the internally an optimised ForeignPtr representation with no finalizer is used. Attempts to add a finalizer will cause an exception to be thrown.

Wrapper of mallocForeignPtrBytes with faster implementation for GHC

Allocate and store the given bytes in memory, returning a pointer to the memory in the remote process.

Lifted mallocArray.

Lifted mallocArray0.

Lifted mallocBytes.