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From: Raj <rajb@rice.edu>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Disabling the OCaml garbage collector
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:33:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474DC28D.1060605@rice.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474DB454.9060507@inria.fr>


Thank you for the advice, Xavier.

I would highly appreciate any pointers to existing code that does the 
'register_global_roots()' thing.  Examples would definitely help me code 
it correctly.

Regards
Raj


Xavier Leroy wrote:
>
>
> The solution to your problem is to play nice with the Caml GC: on the
> C/Python side, handle Caml "values" through an indirection via a
> malloc-ed block, and register the Caml value contained within this
> block with the Caml GC using register_global_roots(), as Thomas
> Fischbacher outlined.  Members of this list can probably point you to
> some existing C/Caml bindings that does just this and that you could
> use as inspiration.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> - Xavier Leroy
>   


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 19:33 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
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 [this message]
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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