From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CamlDL/Abstract pointers problem
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:07:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040129230728.GA31880@davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040129202404.GA15171@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:24:04PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:55:16PM +0100, Alain.Frisch@ens.fr wrote:
> > Reference: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~doligez/caml-guts/Fahndrich99.txt
>
> Interesting. Can someone who knows about the guts of OCaml comment on
> this: Does OCaml store simply the start and extent of the "ML Heap"?
> Or does it know about individual blocks of ML heap and use some sort
> of tree structure to work out if a pointer points into the heap?
Well, it uses a page table, but yes, it does do what you expect.
I have several applications that use types that are pointers outside of
the ocaml heap, and they work well.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-29 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-29 13:06 ronniec95
2004-01-29 15:02 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-29 15:52 ` ronniec95
2004-01-29 16:32 ` art yerkes
2004-01-29 19:04 ` skaller
2004-01-29 19:26 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-29 19:55 ` Alain.Frisch
2004-01-29 20:24 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-29 23:07 ` David Brown [this message]
2004-01-30 0:20 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-01-30 7:04 ` Brian Hurt
2004-01-30 15:36 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-01-30 16:52 ` Brian Hurt
2004-01-30 20:56 ` skaller
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