Re: [Caml-list] CamlDL/Abstract pointers problem

[Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Jacques Garrigue wrote:

> However, there is another scenario which could cause you problems:
> if for some reason your C pointer get freed, and later the ML heap is
> extended so that it includes the address of the pointer, then you may
> have some pointers left on the ML which will now be seen as ML
> pointers.

ML doesn't memset memory it just allocated?  This may be a problem- I 
don't *think* the C standard requires malloc to memset the memory itself, 
which means you might be getting garbage memory.

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