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From: ygrek <ygrek@autistici.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml 4.01.0 Marshal dumping on Object
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:08:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140129150826.7000c270@kiwi.local.tld> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADdxc_nz-ZRzJ-2mLmPHCz8+0FwzcH0+r1AX6O--7s5HVJpvcg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:09:52 +0100
Xavier Van de Woestyne <xavier.vdw@gmail.com> wrote:

> But I've some problems when I try to serialize an Object :
> 
> *Exception: Invalid_argument "output_value: abstract value (outside heap)*

Quoting the manual[1] :

> If flags does not contain Marshal.Closures, marshaling fails when it
> encounters a functional value inside v: only 'pure' data structures,
> containing neither functions nor objects, can safely be transmitted
> between different programs. If flags contains Marshal.Closures,
> functional values will be marshaled as a position in the code of the
> program. In this case, the output of marshaling can only be read back
> in processes that run exactly the same program, with exactly the same
> compiled code. (This is checked at un-marshaling time, using an MD5
> digest of the code transmitted along with the code position.)

I read it as objects are not marshallable at all.

[1]: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Marshal.html

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2014-01-29  1:09 Xavier Van de Woestyne
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