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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: lyn HONG <lynxiamen@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What should the "size" in "caml_alloc_custom" be?
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 23:04:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100520220422.GA18027@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTili-4GYDQeFLHV68B08GLio_SLRG9FCTbUpyCOD@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 02:00:28PM -0400, lyn HONG wrote:
> I have a question about "allocating custom blocks" in "iterfacing C with
> object Ocaml". when we call function "caml_alloc_custom(ops, size, used,
> max)" in the C side, if the structure we want to allocate has a pointer, is
> the "size"  going to be size of the structure itself only, or should we also
> include the memory block that pointer points to?

This example code might be helpful:

http://oirase.annexia.org/libguestfs-1.3.13/ocaml/guestfs_c.c.html
and more here: http://oirase.annexia.org/libguestfs-1.3.13/ocaml/

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-17 18:00 lyn HONG
2010-05-18  6:58 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2010-05-18 14:58   ` lyn HONG
2010-05-18 17:33     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-05-20 22:04 ` Richard Jones [this message]

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