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From: rixed@happyleptic.org
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Interfacing with C: bad practice
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:46:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110816094636.GA6227@ccellier.rd.securactive.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E4A2DAC.5010207@gmail.com>

-[ Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:43:24AM +0300, Török Edwin ]----
> 'list' should be reachable via caml_local_roots, so if it really gets an invalid value
> it sounds like a bug to me.

list may not be garbage collected (since it is indeed registered as the
root), but it may be moved arround (ie promoted to major heap).
The address of list would be fixed in the local variable (the root) but
not the transiant copy on the stack.
Maybe that's the actual problem ?


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-16  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-16  7:37 Dmitry Bely
2011-08-16  8:04 ` Török Edwin
2011-08-16  8:25   ` Dmitry Bely
2011-08-16  8:43     ` Török Edwin
2011-08-16  9:46       ` rixed [this message]
2011-08-16  9:53         ` Dmitry Bely
2011-08-16 10:17           ` Török Edwin
2011-08-16 11:04             ` rixed
     [not found] ` <20110816.105738.246515733851238101.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>
2011-08-16  9:21   ` Dmitry Bely
2011-08-16 10:39     ` Mauricio Fernandez
2011-08-16 14:27       ` John Carr
2011-08-16 12:28 ` [Caml-list] " Dmitry Bely
2011-08-16 15:25 ` [Caml-list] " Richard W.M. Jones
2011-08-16 15:51   ` rixed
2011-08-16 16:00     ` Will M. Farr
2011-08-16 16:10     ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-08-16 16:17       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-08-16 16:18       ` Dmitry Bely
2011-08-16 16:22         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-08-16 16:27           ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-08-16 16:30             ` malc
2011-08-16 16:34             ` Török Edwin
2011-08-16 16:47               ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-08-16 16:55               ` [Caml-list] " Jeffrey Scofield
2011-08-16 17:08                 ` Will M. Farr
2011-08-16 19:46                 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-08-16 20:18                   ` Jeffrey Scofield
2011-08-16 17:08       ` [Caml-list] " rixed
2011-08-16 16:06   ` John Carr
2011-08-16 16:14     ` Wojciech Meyer
2011-08-16 16:13   ` Dmitry Bely

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