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From: SP <sp@orbitalfox.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Exceptions and Gc.
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 11:11:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1d614712-d4c8-c4ae-d796-993b32902d5e@orbitalfox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABWZ6OQhCj9eErD7Fhng=JQtsCo7xU04veanZEOsW6kxs30LyQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 21/03/2017 15:07, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Being able to clean everything up when the program exits seems like a
> reasonable feature.

Maybe the "appropriate" way with the current API is to have bindings
that deallocate the resources from the external heap, and only leave the
OCaml allocations (hopefully just pointers) to be collected later.

That way you can do any critical external finalisations at the exact
point you wish.

Would that work?

-- 
    SP

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-25 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-20 19:22 Romain Beauxis
2017-03-21 11:17 ` Dmitry Bely
2017-03-21 11:58   ` Max Mouratov
2017-03-21 15:07     ` Romain Beauxis
2017-03-21 16:05       ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-03-25 11:11       ` SP [this message]

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