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From: Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org>
To: Animesh Pathak <animesh.pathak@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] help regarding 'union'
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 12:26:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020528102601.GB30829@ep09.kernel.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205280752.g4S7qsL08663@payia.inria.fr>

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:52:54AM +0200, Animesh Pathak wrote:
> dear members,
> I am new to caml and am currently trying to write a program which involves 
> sending of data across a network connection. What I have to do is to send a 
> complex structure (containing lists of integers, mutexes etc. ) across a 
> network. In C, i would have used a 'union' with a char array and sent the 
> array... how is it done in caml?
> Kindly help me regarding this problem of mine.

Look at module Marshal. You can convert any (well, non-cyclic)
datastructure to string and send it. However beware that marshalled
structures might be imcompatible between OCaml releases (they however
are compatible (unlike C union solution) between different machines).

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-28 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-28  7:52 Animesh Pathak
2002-05-28 10:26 ` Michal Moskal [this message]
2002-05-29  1:36   ` YAMAGATA yoriyuki

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