Re: [Caml-list] c-interface question...

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:12:15AM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> An added "optimization" is that if an argument is only used before the
> first allocation you call, it also doesn't need to be declared.
> 
> It helps to think about what is happening here.  Things that allocate
> memory may trigger a garbage collection.  If you have arguments or
> variables that might be affected by the garbage collector, you need to
> tell the gc about them.  That is what CAMLparamx and CAMLlocal do.

Interesting ... so the garbage collector can never run asynchronously?
That should simplify my code ...

Rich.

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