Re: problem with ocamlmktop (contd)

[Thierry Bravier <thierry.bravier@dassault-aviation.fr>]

Pascal Brisset wrote:
> 
> Here is a more complete example demonstrating:
> 
> (1) destructors of global objects being called correctly on exit;
> (2) translation of C++ exceptions to Caml exceptions;
> (3) catching a C++ exception generated by a C++ primitive called
>     through a Caml callback.
> 
> The only trick is that if you really need (3), you have to modify
> libcamlrun.a (found in ocaml-1.07/byterun) as follows:
> 
>

Thanks for helping,

I am not currently trying to map ocaml and C++ exceptions
because it seems that basically, C++ exceptions don't mix
well with setjmp/longjmp. so (2) and (3) are not my priorities
although they are challenging.

(1) is important to me ! Your example uses final ML objects
successfully but I am also interested in making C++ manage
its own C++ global values when entering main and
most of all when leaving main ().

I agree C++ global variables should be avoided and I do my very
best to achieve this goal, unfortunately static variables
in functions (and of course in classes too) also need to be
destroyed at exit () time. This means, for most C++ compilers,
compiling main () in C++ and linking with the C++ linker.

The features of gcc (it can replace g++ as a linker) are
not fully satisfying in my case because I mainly use egcs-1.1
(is it linkable with gcc-2.8.1 ?) and I often try to compile
and link code with other C++ compilers (mainly SparcWorks and xlC).

This explains why I need the -cc and -clinker options
I have previously suggested.

I keep the exceptions management for further explorations.

Cheers

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