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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:47:22 -0700
From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: Lars Nilsson <lars@quantumchamaeleon.com>
Cc: Caml List <caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlopt with external function taking more than 5 params
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:50:11PM -0400, Lars Nilsson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am wondering if I am doing something wrong, or if I am experiencing a bug.
> I am trying to implement a function in C that takes more than 5 parameters
> (8 in my real code). For some reason it does not appear that the native code
> version is being called properly. If anyone can shed any light on this I
> would be very grateful...

> [c-tester.c]
> CAMLprim void tester_bytecode(value a, value b, value c, value d,
>                               value e, value f, value g, value h)
> CAMLprim void tester_native(value *argv, int argc)
> {

These two are reversed.  The native code version calls with all of the
arguments, whereas the bytecode version passes in an array.

Dave

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