[Caml-list] Sys.command

[Christophe Raffalli <christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>]

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It seems that Sys.commd always returns 0 on Windows 98 (even if the 
command does not exist) ?
(it works on XP and Linux).

Is this a Bug or a Windows 98 limitation ?

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re about the previous loop's allocations:
>>
>>for(i=0;i<n;++i) {
>>   CAMLlocal(foo,bar);
>>   // use foo bar
>>   // callback to caml with foo bar, maybe somebody stores them somewhere
>>   CAMLendblock();  // want this
>>}
> 
> 
> If I follow you correctly, there are two ways to achieve the desired
> behavior.  One is to use the older API for GC root registration:
> Begin_roots and End_roots.  (There is some documentation in comments
> in file <caml/memory.h>.)
> 
>   for(i=0;i<n;++i) {
>     foo = bar = Val_unit;
>     Begin_roots(foo,bar);
>     // use foo bar
>     // callback to caml with foo bar, maybe somebody stores them somewhere
>     End_roots();
>   }
> 
> The other way, perhaps preferable, is to move the root registration
> outside the loop:
> 
>   CAMLlocal(foo,bar);
>   for(i=0;i<n;++i) {
>     // use foo bar
>     // callback to caml with foo bar, maybe somebody stores them somewhere
>     foo = bar = Val_unit;  /* don't keep roots longer than necessary
>   }
>   CAMLreturn(whatever);
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> - Xavier Leroy
> 
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Christophe Raffalli
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