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From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A nastier example
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:40:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d26751672edba48073994fc03b83573@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505160115.34416.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

On May 16, 2005, at 02:15, Jon Harrop wrote:

> Very interesting. In summary, is it fair to say that Marshall has 
> problems
> with functions when used in the top-level but not with ocamlc- and 
> ocamlopt-
> compiled code?

Yes, although it is a very small problem: it would pretty hard for the
average programmer to guarantee that the same function is compiled at
the same address in the top-level that unmarshals the closure.

So the usefulness of marshaling closures from the top-level would be
rather small.

-- Damien


      reply	other threads:[~2005-05-16 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-14 14:51 Julien Verlaguet
2005-05-14 15:09 ` [Caml-list] " Eric Cooper
2005-05-14 15:36 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-05-14 15:47   ` Julien Verlaguet
2005-05-15 14:59   ` Vincenzo Ciancia
2005-05-14 19:09 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-05-15 15:50   ` skaller
2005-05-15 17:24   ` Mark Shinwell
2005-05-16  0:15     ` Jon Harrop
2005-05-16 11:40       ` Damien Doligez [this message]

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