final revision to GArrow classes

[ghc-base.git] / Foreign / Concurrent.hs

diff --git a/Foreign/Concurrent.hs b/Foreign/Concurrent.hs
index a09c06f..e0f2faa 100644 (file)
--- a/Foreign/Concurrent.hs
+++ b/Foreign/Concurrent.hs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-{-# OPTIONS_GHC -XNoImplicitPrelude #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE CPP, NoImplicitPrelude #-}
+
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -- |
 -- Module      :  Foreign.Concurrent
@@ -39,10 +40,9 @@ newForeignPtr :: Ptr a -> IO () -> IO (ForeignPtr a)
 -- ^Turns a plain memory reference into a foreign object by associating
 -- a finalizer - given by the monadic operation - with the reference.
 -- The finalizer will be executed after the last reference to the
--- foreign object is dropped.  Note that there is no guarantee on how
--- soon the finalizer is executed after the last reference was dropped;
--- this depends on the details of the Haskell storage manager.  The only
--- guarantee is that the finalizer runs before the program terminates.
+-- foreign object is dropped.  There is no guarantee of promptness, and
+-- in fact there is no guarantee that the finalizer will eventually
+-- run at all.
 newForeignPtr = GHC.ForeignPtr.newConcForeignPtr
 
 addForeignPtrFinalizer :: ForeignPtr a -> IO () -> IO ()