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From: "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: "Markus Mottl" <markus@oefai.at>,
	"Damien Doligez" <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
Cc: "OCAML" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GC and preventing data relocation
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:14:42 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006201c2f1cc$a910ad20$2713f9ca@WARP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030321163508.GA10107@kiefer.ai.univie.ac.at>

> > If the string is in the minor heap, you know it's a short string and
> > you can (for example) copy it into a buffer pre-allocated in the C heap.
>
> Unfortunately, this won't work, because the callback may again call the
> C-code, either overwriting the buffer or requiring me to write my own
> memory management. I don't think the latter is worthwhile so I'll just
> dynamically allocate buffers as required.

So, what about running a full_major, that should empty the minor heap and
move your string into the major heap.
Or else, explicity create a major heap ocaml block and copy the string into
it ( in not already in major heap ).

Nicolas Cannasse

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-24  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-20 15:16 Markus Mottl
2003-03-20 18:28 ` Christopher Quinn
2003-03-21  0:01   ` Markus Mottl
2003-03-21  1:15     ` Christopher Quinn
2003-03-21 12:03       ` Markus Mottl
2003-03-21 16:15 ` Damien Doligez
2003-03-21 16:35   ` Markus Mottl
2003-03-24  6:14     ` Nicolas Cannasse [this message]
2003-03-24  8:58       ` Markus Mottl

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