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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Errors in the manual

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Niki Yoshiuchi <aplusbi@gmail.com> wrote:
> While we are on the topic...
>
> A lot of the C functions/macros have different names in the manual.
> For example, the Bigarray allocation functions are called
> "alloc_bigarray" and "alloc_bigarray_dims" in the manual
> (http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual043.html) but are
> actually "caml_ba_alloc" and "caml_ba_alloc_dims".  I've noticed a
> couple other discrepancies (I think they all dealt with allocations,
> actually).

Names without caml_ prefix are "old" ones. They are equal to prefixed
names until CAML_NAME_SPACE macro is defined:

#define alloc_bigarray caml_ba_alloc
#define alloc_bigarray_dims caml_ba_alloc_dims

For more details see caml/compatibility.h

- Dmitry Bely