From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Marshalling unknown types
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:19:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040126101945.GA2500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4014CE35.3000503@baretta.com>
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:22:13AM +0100, Alex Baretta wrote:
> I can find no reasonable explanation for this behavior. I realize that
> exceptions are nasty beasts and that the marshalling functions were not
> meant for them, but in this case, the exception is only built and raised
> *after* unmarshalling occurs, so I don't see why pattern matching should
> fail.
IIRC you cannot marshal/unmarshal functions safely. It only works in
the limited case where you are unmarshaling in the exact same compiled
program.
What's needed is for someone to rewrite the marshal code to work
safely. However there's not enough type information available at
runtime for this to work. eg. [1; 2; 3] looks the same as (1, 2, 3)
at runtime.
Rich.
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2004-01-26 8:22 Alex Baretta
2004-01-26 10:19 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2004-01-26 10:55 ` James Leifer
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