From: "Vijay Chakravarthy" <vchakravarthy@verticalnet.com>
To: "David Brown" <caml-list@davidb.org>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Garbage collection and threads.
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:12:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002401c0bbca$7c0ba620$bfcaa8c0@SFOWVCHAK1L7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010402124640.A20688@trix.com>
Hi David,
If I'm not mistaken, there is a zlib binding in the mlswf library published
to the list a month ago.
It would be nice to have a standalone zlib binding as well, helps with
things like pdf parsing etc.
Vijay
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Brown" <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:46 PM
Subject: [Caml-list] Garbage collection and threads.
> I'm writing some bindings to zlib (compression library) and was wondering
> how the garbage collector would work with threading.
>
> The zlib library needs two buffers, one to get data from, and one to put
> data in. Is it safe to pass the result of String_val(x) into a C routine?
> If I have threads running, could the garbage collector run while my C
> routine is running?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Brown
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2001-04-02 19:46 David Brown
2001-04-02 23:12 ` Vijay Chakravarthy [this message]
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