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From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] expose GC roots as weak Obj.t pointers?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:30:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0E4A0700-B924-11D7-BC89-0003930FCE12@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030710080227.GA716@eecs.harvard.edu>

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 10:02 AM, Christian Lindig wrote:

> Would it be possible (in principle) to expose the GC roots as an array
> of weak Obj.t pointers? This would allow to walk the heap from Caml
> using Obj.
>
>     Gc.roots:   unit -> Obj.t Weak.t

I think this should be possible.  Of course, you wouldn't want to 
examine
this data too often because it would prevent the GC from reclaiming
any memory.

-- Damien

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-07-18 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-09 10:10 [Caml-list] heap profiling Fabrice Le Fessant
2003-07-09 12:33 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2003-07-09 14:59   ` Fabrice Le Fessant
     [not found] ` <lefessan@tyminouch.dyndns.org>
2003-07-09 15:03   ` Norman Ramsey
2003-07-09 20:52 ` Christian Lindig
2003-07-10  8:02 ` [Caml-list] expose GC roots as weak Obj.t pointers? Christian Lindig
2003-07-18 13:30   ` Damien Doligez [this message]

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