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From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
To: Raj <rajb@rice.edu>
Cc: Caml mailing list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Disabling the OCaml garbage collector
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:15:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474DB04B.30909@frisch.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474DADF7.5020204@rice.edu>

Raj wrote:
> The issue for me is that I need to be able to modify mutable objects in 
> OCaml (eg. array-modification in-place) from both OCaml and C/Python. 
> However, the OCaml GC moves things around while the execution is in 
> C/Python and this crashes my program.

Are you sure?

The OCaml GC is triggered only when Caml memory blocks are allocated 
(from Caml or C code) or when you call it explicitly.

-- Alain


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-27 16:28 Raj Bandyopadhyay
2007-11-27 16:41 ` [Caml-list] " Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2007-11-28 18:05   ` Raj
2007-11-28 18:15     ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2007-11-28 18:31       ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-11-28 19:30         ` Raj
2007-11-28 18:25     ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-11-28 18:32     ` Xavier Leroy
2007-11-28 19:33       ` Raj
2007-11-28 20:00         ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-12-04 20:14           ` Raj Bandyopadhyay
2007-12-05  4:07             ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-29  8:54     ` Frédéric van der Plancke
2007-11-27 17:05 ` [Caml-list] Python and Caml (was: Disabling the OCaml garbage collector) Thomas Fischbacher
2011-08-04 13:10   ` [Caml-list] Python and Caml Stéphane Glondu

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