From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA17436; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:50:32 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17276 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:50:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aomori.annexia.org (annexia.force9.co.uk [212.56.101.183]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i55GoUSH012330 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:50:30 +0200 Received: from rich by aomori.annexia.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BWeNJ-0005yY-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:50:29 +0100 Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:50:29 +0100 Cc: caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Garbage collecting _everything_ Message-ID: <20040605165029.GA22920@redhat.com> References: <40C1E87D.9030903@cs.unipr.it> <1086452975.16811.474.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1086452975.16811.474.camel@pelican.wigram> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40C1F9D6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 finalizers:01 vectors:01 hashes:01 funcs:01 allocator:01 ltd:98 ocaml:01 garbage:01 lib:01 lib:01 06,:02 configure:02 objects:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:29:36AM +1000, skaller wrote: > Clearly, global variables created thusly: > > let x = create_object () [...] This is interesting. Is there a way to force OCaml to collect all objects at exit, even global ones, obviously after all possible user code has stopped running? In Java I seem to remember there was a way to configure the Gc to run all finalizers at exit. One would think it should be possible with a setting in OCAMLRUNPARAM. Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://www.j-london.com/ Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment C2LIB is a library of basic Perl/STL-like types for C. Vectors, hashes, trees, string funcs, pool allocator: http://www.annexia.org/freeware/c2lib/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners