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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: "Bauer, Christoph" <Christoph.Bauer@lms-gmbh.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Double+Int Records (C-Interface) and Double_array_tag
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:25:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060119112512.GA24486@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26EB47FDD566A7469FC862DAF373792F07D72B@kaiserslautern1.lmsintl.com>

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:24:54AM +0100, Bauer, Christoph wrote:
> given a type like
> 
> type t = {
>    i : int;
>    f0 : float;
>    f1 : float;
>    ...
>    f100 : float;
> }
> 
> A value from this type is constructed in C-code. Is
> it possible to create a block with a Double_array_tag?
> (Because there are only unboxed values in this record.)

On a 32 bit machine, the int is 4 bytes long and the floats are 8
bytes long, so the floats wouldn't be aligned.  How about simply:

type t = {
  i : int;
  f : float array;
}

Rich.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-19 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-19 10:24 Bauer, Christoph
2006-01-19 10:59 ` [Caml-list] " Frederic van der Plancke
2006-01-19 11:25 ` Richard Jones [this message]

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