[Caml-list] Garbage collection and threads.

[Caml-list] Garbage collection and threads.

[David Brown]

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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Re: [Caml-list] Garbage collection and threads.

[Vijay Chakravarthy]

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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> To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr.  Archives:
http://caml.inria.fr

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