From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: micha <micha-1@fantasymail.de>
Cc: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] allocating memory for c-structures
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:33:09 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167157989.5675.18.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459166C7.4080005@fantasymail.de>
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 19:15 +0100, micha wrote:
> Normaly I allocate memory for c-structures with malloc or with "new" for
> c++ objects. Some time ago a read about a library which places external
> structures in strings of the interfacing languages (it was a scheme lib
> I think). So instead of using malloc or new I would allocate an
> ocaml-string and put the c-structure there. So it will be free by the gc.
> That seems o.k. for me, any comments? I'm missing something?
I don't believe Ocaml guarantees the contents of a string
will remain in a fixed location .. it might move the storage
to a new address .. so pointers into the structure might
dangle.
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-26 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-26 18:15 micha
2006-12-26 18:33 ` skaller [this message]
2006-12-26 18:35 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2006-12-26 18:55 ` micha
2006-12-26 18:32 EL CHAAR Rabih SGAM/AI/SAM
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