+import GHC.Prim (unsafeCoerce#)
+
+-- | 'runMainIO' is wrapped around 'Main.main' (or whatever main is
+-- called in the program). It catches otherwise uncaught exceptions,
+-- and also flushes stdout\/stderr before exiting.
+runMainIO :: IO a -> IO a
+runMainIO main = (do a <- main; cleanUp; return a) `catchException` topHandler
+
+-- | 'runIO' is wrapped around every @foreign export@ and @foreign
+-- import \"wrapper\"@ to mop up any uncaught exceptions. Thus, the
+-- result of running 'System.Exit.exitWith' in a foreign-exported
+-- function is the same as in the main thread: it terminates the
+-- program.
+--
+runIO :: IO a -> IO a
+runIO main = catchException main topHandler
+
+-- | Like 'runIO', but in the event of an exception that causes an exit,
+-- we don't shut down the system cleanly, we just exit. This is
+-- useful in some cases, because the safe exit version will give other
+-- threads a chance to clean up first, which might shut down the
+-- system in a different way. For example, try
+--
+-- main = forkIO (runIO (exitWith (ExitFailure 1))) >> threadDelay 10000
+--
+-- This will sometimes exit with "interrupted" and code 0, because the
+-- main thread is given a chance to shut down when the child thread calls
+-- safeExit. There is a race to shut down between the main and child threads.
+--
+runIOFastExit :: IO a -> IO a
+runIOFastExit main = catchException main topHandlerFastExit
+ -- NB. this is used by the testsuite driver
+
+-- | The same as 'runIO', but for non-IO computations. Used for
+-- wrapping @foreign export@ and @foreign import \"wrapper\"@ when these
+-- are used to export Haskell functions with non-IO types.
+--
+runNonIO :: a -> IO a
+runNonIO a = catchException (a `seq` return a) topHandler
+
+topHandler :: Exception -> IO a
+topHandler err = catchException (real_handler safeExit err) topHandler