From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
Cc: 'Michael Ekstrand' <michael@elehack.net>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How does OCaml update references when values are moved by the GC?
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:49:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101103094935.GB31914@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <019501cb7872$b56856b0$20390410$@com>
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:40:32PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I stumbled upon Richard's excellent web page describing
> the internals of OCaml and the write barrier but it does not describe how
> the pointers actually get rewritten.
I found out the details by reading the C code of the garbage collector
and sometimes the generated assembler from ocamlopt -S. It's pretty
straightforward to follow.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
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2010-10-29 7:47 ` Damien Doligez
2010-10-30 11:14 ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2010-10-30 17:15 ` Jon Harrop
2010-10-30 17:38 ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-10-30 20:40 ` Jon Harrop
2010-11-03 9:49 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2010-10-30 20:40 ` Jon Harrop
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2010-11-02 10:25 ` Xavier Leroy
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