Re: [Caml-list] bigarrays and toplevel on Win32?

[Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>]

> I can not seem to get the bigarray module to work at the toplevel,
> no matter what I do.  I've got both ocamlc and ocamlopt apps
> building and working fine using bigarrays.
> I always get "The external function `bigarray_get_1' is not
> available".  I must be doing something stupid and wrong.  Any ideas?

This is a known bug in OCaml 3.00.  A simple fix is described here:

    http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs/fixed?id=94

and of course this will be fixed in OCaml 3.01.

Concerning bounds checks for bigarray accesses: you are correct that
the current implementation always perform them, there is no equivalent
to Array.unsafe_{get,set}, and the -unsafe flag simply doesn't apply
to bigarrays.

The party line on unsafe array accesses is unclear: on the one hand,
we do not want to encourage their use, as it can break type safety and
dramatically reduce the safety of the programs; on the other hand,
they are handy when benchmarking against C or Fortran :-)

I'll keep that in mind for 3.02.

- Xavier Leroy
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