From: Damien Bobillot <damien.bobillot@m4x.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unsafe features
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:24:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2D13837B-0BDC-4E14-86DE-ADCCE2E3BC78@m4x.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87slwny8xs.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
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Le 2 sept. 05 à 14:02, Florian Weimer a écrit :
> Has Ocaml any unsafe features? With "unsafe", I mean constructs
> which, when (ab)used in certain ways, make further reasoning about the
> behavior of the program impossible (and neither the compiler nor the
> run-time system provides a diagnosis). Examples in other languages
> are out-of-bounds array access, null pointer dereference, integer
> arithmetic overflow, premature deallocation of heap objects, wrong
> type declarations -- you get the idea.
>
> The C language interface falls into this category. Are there any
> other problematic areas?
The Obj.magic function. I don't know exactly what it does, but I
think it does arbitrary type conversions.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-03 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-02 12:02 Florian Weimer
2005-09-03 9:24 ` Damien Bobillot [this message]
2005-09-03 9:40 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Weimer
2005-09-03 11:19 ` Jon Harrop
2005-09-03 12:07 ` yoann padioleau
2005-09-03 14:28 ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-03 14:35 ` yoann padioleau
2005-09-03 14:47 ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-03 14:51 ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-03 14:55 ` yoann padioleau
2005-09-04 1:58 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-09-03 9:29 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-11-29 18:46 ` Integral solutions of rational linear equations Thomas Gazagnaire
2005-11-30 8:32 ` [Caml-list] " Sebastian Egner
2005-11-30 8:49 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-11-30 9:06 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-11-30 9:08 ` Christophe Raffalli
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