Re: [Caml-list] C Interface question about failwith

[Romain Bardou <romain.bardou@inria.fr>]

Hello,

I guess you could apply the generic mechanism described in the user manual:

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual033.html
19.7.3  Registering OCaml exceptions for use in C functions

Maybe Failure is already registered for callback but I don't know…

Cheers,

-- 
Romain Bardou

Le 01/03/2013 12:06, Christoph Bauer a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> In C code I have a malloced-string error message, which must be freed. But I want also raise an OCaml exception
> with this string. Actually what I need something like this:
>
> static
> void failwith_string_value(value msg)
> {
>    CAMLparam1(msg);
>    caml_raise_with_arg(Field(caml_global_data, FAILURE_EXN), msg);
>    CAMLnoreturn;
> }
>
> Then I could do:
>
>
>       msg = caml_copy_string(s);
>      free(s);
>      failwith_string_value(msg);
>
>
> But FAILURE_EXN is not defined in fail.h and more important
> caml_global_data is defined in mlvalues.h, but I get an undefined reference link error.
>
> Any ideas how to solve such a problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Christoph Bauer
>
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