General marshalling utilities

with val f executes the computation f, passing as argument a pointer to a temporarily allocated block of memory into which val has been marshalled (the combination of alloca and poke).

The memory is freed when f terminates (either normally or via an exception), so the pointer passed to f must not be used after this.

Allocate a block of memory and marshal a value into it (the combination of malloc and poke). 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.

Convert a Haskell Bool to its numeric representation

Convert a Boolean in numeric representation to a Haskell value

Allocate storage and marshal a storable value wrapped into a Maybe

• the nullPtr is used to represent Nothing

Converts a withXXX combinator into one marshalling a value wrapped into a Maybe, using nullPtr to represent Nothing.

Convert a peek combinator into a one returning Nothing if applied to a nullPtr

Replicates a withXXX combinator over a list of objects, yielding a list of marshalled objects

Copies the given number of bytes from the second area (source) into the first (destination); the copied areas may not overlap

Copies the given number of bytes from the second area (source) into the first (destination); the copied areas may overlap

Fill a given number of bytes in memory area with a byte value.

Since: 4.8.0.0