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The library allows you to allocate memory in a region yielding a
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regional pointer to it. When the region terminates all pointers are
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automatically freed. Most importantly, a pointer can't be returned
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from the region. So it's impossible to reference unallocated memory.
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The primary technique used in this package is called "Lightweight
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monadic regions" which was invented by Oleg Kiselyov and Chung-chieh
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Shan. See:
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http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/regions.html#light-weight
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This technique is implemented in the regions package which is
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re-exported from this library.
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This library provides wrappers around all the Ptr functions from the
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Foreign.* modules from base.
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