{-# LANGUAGE Unsafe #-} {-# LANGUAGE CPP , NoImplicitPrelude , BangPatterns , MagicHash , UnboxedTuples , DeriveDataTypeable , StandaloneDeriving #-} {-# OPTIONS_HADDOCK hide #-} ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- | -- Module : GHC.Weak -- Copyright : (c) The University of Glasgow, 1998-2002 -- License : see libraries/base/LICENSE -- -- Maintainer : cvs-ghc@haskell.org -- Stability : internal -- Portability : non-portable (GHC Extensions) -- -- Weak pointers. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- #hide module GHC.Weak ( Weak(..), mkWeak, deRefWeak, finalize, runFinalizerBatch ) where import GHC.Base import Data.Maybe import Data.Typeable {-| A weak pointer object with a key and a value. The value has type @v@. A weak pointer expresses a relationship between two objects, the /key/ and the /value/: if the key is considered to be alive by the garbage collector, then the value is also alive. A reference from the value to the key does /not/ keep the key alive. A weak pointer may also have a finalizer of type @IO ()@; if it does, then the finalizer will be run at most once, at a time after the key has become unreachable by the program (\"dead\"). The storage manager attempts to run the finalizer(s) for an object soon after the object dies, but promptness is not guaranteed. It is not guaranteed that a finalizer will eventually run, and no attempt is made to run outstanding finalizers when the program exits. Therefore finalizers should not be relied on to clean up resources - other methods (eg. exception handlers) should be employed, possibly in addition to finalisers. References from the finalizer to the key are treated in the same way as references from the value to the key: they do not keep the key alive. A finalizer may therefore ressurrect the key, perhaps by storing it in the same data structure. The finalizer, and the relationship between the key and the value, exist regardless of whether the program keeps a reference to the 'Weak' object or not. There may be multiple weak pointers with the same key. In this case, the finalizers for each of these weak pointers will all be run in some arbitrary order, or perhaps concurrently, when the key dies. If the programmer specifies a finalizer that assumes it has the only reference to an object (for example, a file that it wishes to close), then the programmer must ensure that there is only one such finalizer. If there are no other threads to run, the runtime system will check for runnable finalizers before declaring the system to be deadlocked. -} data Weak v = Weak (Weak# v) #include "Typeable.h" INSTANCE_TYPEABLE1(Weak,weakTc,"Weak") -- | Establishes a weak pointer to @k@, with value @v@ and a finalizer. -- -- This is the most general interface for building a weak pointer. -- mkWeak :: k -- ^ key -> v -- ^ value -> Maybe (IO ()) -- ^ finalizer -> IO (Weak v) -- ^ returns: a weak pointer object mkWeak key val (Just finalizer) = IO $ \s -> case mkWeak# key val finalizer s of { (# s1, w #) -> (# s1, Weak w #) } mkWeak key val Nothing = IO $ \s -> case mkWeakNoFinalizer# key val s of { (# s1, w #) -> (# s1, Weak w #) } {-| Dereferences a weak pointer. If the key is still alive, then @'Just' v@ is returned (where @v@ is the /value/ in the weak pointer), otherwise 'Nothing' is returned. The return value of 'deRefWeak' depends on when the garbage collector runs, hence it is in the 'IO' monad. -} deRefWeak :: Weak v -> IO (Maybe v) deRefWeak (Weak w) = IO $ \s -> case deRefWeak# w s of (# s1, flag, p #) -> case flag of 0# -> (# s1, Nothing #) _ -> (# s1, Just p #) -- | Causes a the finalizer associated with a weak pointer to be run -- immediately. finalize :: Weak v -> IO () finalize (Weak w) = IO $ \s -> case finalizeWeak# w s of (# s1, 0#, _ #) -> (# s1, () #) -- already dead, or no finaliser (# s1, _, f #) -> f s1 {- Instance Eq (Weak v) where (Weak w1) == (Weak w2) = w1 `sameWeak#` w2 -} -- run a batch of finalizers from the garbage collector. We're given -- an array of finalizers and the length of the array, and we just -- call each one in turn. -- -- the IO primitives are inlined by hand here to get the optimal -- code (sigh) --SDM. runFinalizerBatch :: Int -> Array# (IO ()) -> IO () runFinalizerBatch (I# n) arr = let go m = IO $ \s -> case m of 0# -> (# s, () #) _ -> let !m' = m -# 1# in case indexArray# arr m' of { (# io #) -> case unIO io s of { (# s', _ #) -> unIO (go m') s' }} in go n\end{code}