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From: David.Mentre@irisa.fr (David Mentré)
To: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: Nicolas Joliot <Nicolas.Joliot@irisa.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Interfaçage C/CAML
Date: 11 Aug 2000 10:58:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wd8em3wrx6g.fsf@parate.irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Markus Mottl's message of "Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:14:04 +0200"

Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:

> It seems that a common bug has struck again: using "Store_{whatever}" in
> C-interfaces is only allowed (and then mandatory) with structured blocks.
> Using it for anything else may crash the GC.

I would say that Store_{whatever} macros are useful for data structures
that are created in the C-world but should be managed (and destroyed) in
the OCaml-world, WITHOUT any further access on the data by the C
part. For all other cases, use the Field_{whatever} macros. With this
macro, the OCaml GC won't try to have a look at your C data structures.

By the way, Markus has already found a bug like this in my own code. See
this message for further details on how the bug is triggered :
  http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200002/msg00074.html

I hope it helps,
d.
-- 
 David.Mentre@irisa.fr -- http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/
 Opinions expressed here are only mine.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-08-14 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-10 16:05 Nicolas Joliot
2000-08-10 17:14 ` Markus Mottl
2000-08-11  8:24   ` Xavier Leroy
2000-08-11 10:54     ` Markus Mottl
2000-08-11  8:58   ` David Mentré [this message]
2000-08-14 17:35 David McClain

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