X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=GHC%2FIO.hs;h=8a2dd595b3b8b5e1bf814118163868d79ba57a5a;hb=08cc1c4f54b482dffaef1a1b43c5e0208894f643;hp=9615953a1525018ede21451ea32d799eb1ddde56;hpb=c821b83ac3c6f6cceeceee702b033d53aa92258c;p=ghc-base.git diff --git a/GHC/IO.hs b/GHC/IO.hs index 9615953..8a2dd59 100644 --- a/GHC/IO.hs +++ b/GHC/IO.hs @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-orphans #-} {-# OPTIONS_GHC -XNoImplicitPrelude -funbox-strict-fields -XBangPatterns #-} {-# OPTIONS_HADDOCK hide #-} ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -102,11 +101,15 @@ This is the \"back door\" into the 'IO' monad, allowing this to be safe, the 'IO' computation should be free of side effects and independent of its environment. -If the I\/O computation wrapped in 'unsafePerformIO' -performs side effects, then the relative order in which those side -effects take place (relative to the main I\/O trunk, or other calls to -'unsafePerformIO') is indeterminate. You have to be careful when -writing and compiling modules that use 'unsafePerformIO': +If the I\/O computation wrapped in 'unsafePerformIO' performs side +effects, then the relative order in which those side effects take +place (relative to the main I\/O trunk, or other calls to +'unsafePerformIO') is indeterminate. Furthermore, when using +'unsafePerformIO' to cause side-effects, you should take the following +precautions to ensure the side effects are performed as many times as +you expect them to be. Note that these precautions are necessary for +GHC, but may not be sufficient, and other compilers may require +different precautions: * Use @{\-\# NOINLINE foo \#-\}@ as a pragma on any function @foo@ that calls 'unsafePerformIO'. If the call is inlined, @@ -117,7 +120,7 @@ writing and compiling modules that use 'unsafePerformIO': two side effects that were meant to be separate. A good example is using multiple global variables (like @test@ in the example below). - * Make sure that the either you switch off let-floating, or that the + * Make sure that the either you switch off let-floating (@-fno-full-laziness@), or that the call to 'unsafePerformIO' cannot float outside a lambda. For example, if you say: @