Re: [Caml-list] Disabling the OCaml garbage collector

[Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>]

On Tuesday 04 December 2007 20:14, Raj Bandyopadhyay wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As a followup to this discussion, I have been trying to understand
> the OCaml/C interface better. Here's a very small program that I've
> been trying to get to work. It's a mutually recursive function, one
> part in C and the other in OCaml.
>
> (* (* Implement this in C *)
> let factC g n = if n=0 then [] else ("C",n)::(g (n-1));;
> *)
>
> external factC: (int ->(string * int) list) -> int -> ((string * int)
> list)= "caml_factC"
> let factO g n = if n=0 then [] else ("OCaml",n)::(g (n-1));;

Could it just be segfaulting because you've overflowed the stack? Try tail 
recursive functions, e.g. CPS.

I would love to see this working because I never managed to get this kind of 
stuff to work before.

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