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From: Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr>
To: OCaml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Marshall.from_channel and segmentation fault
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:38:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <557A9A75.9040307@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150612052738.GA3684@pllab.is.ocha.ac.jp>

On 06/12/2015 07:27 AM, Kenichi Asai wrote:
> The OCaml manual for the Marshall module says:
>
>> (Marshal.from_channel chan : type).  Anything can happen at run-time
>> if the object in the file does not belong to the given type.
>
> and this "Anything" contains segmentation fault.  Is it difficult to
> avoid this segmentation fault and, e.g., raise an exception instead?

Maybe bin_prot from janestreet is better for your use case.
I think it will throw an exception if you try to unmarshal something
of the wrong type.

> Sincerely,
>

-- 
Regards,
Francois.
"When in doubt, use more types"

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-12  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-12  5:27 Kenichi Asai
2015-06-12  7:39 ` Romain Bardou
2015-06-12  8:26   ` Kenichi Asai
2015-06-12  8:55     ` Romain Bardou
2015-06-12  8:41   ` Francois Berenger
2015-06-12  8:38 ` Francois Berenger [this message]

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