Re: [Caml-list] Binding problem.

[David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:41:19AM +0400, Nickolay Kolchin-Semyonov wrote:

> Always use CAMLparam with true arguments number!

There's no real point, since some of the arguments are C heap pointers,
so they're never going to move.  It also isn't needed if the arguments
are only used before the first allocation.

> You have a bug in 
> caml_sqlite_compile (value db, value query)
> 
> strcpy (String_val (tmp), tail);
> 
> Don't do that. Instead work with char pointers and convert to Ocaml types only 
> at function end. I.e. (I just fixed code that don't like, without 
> understanding your algorithms)

Actually, that part works just fine, at least the string manipulation.
The example you give needs to change the
        Field (pair, 1) = copy_string (tmp);
into a
        Store_field (pair, 1, copy_string (tmp));

since the copy_string can call the GC, and could move the pair into the
shared heap.  I learned this because I just figured out what was wrong
with the binding :-)

The code I have there is kind of gross, but will always work, since
sqlite always will return a tail value that points later on.  I kind of
wanted to avoid a malloc and free to copy a value that in normal cases
will never be used.

Thanks for looking at it,
Dave

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