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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Damien Bobillot <damien.bobillot@m4x.org>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unsafe features
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:40:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y86elcb2.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2D13837B-0BDC-4E14-86DE-ADCCE2E3BC78@m4x.org> (Damien Bobillot's message of "Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:24:03 +0200")

* Damien Bobillot:

>> The C language interface falls into this category.  Are there any
>> other problematic areas?
>
> The Obj.magic function. I don't know exactly what it does, but I  
> think it does arbitrary type conversions.

Apparently, it creates a bit-wise copy of a value and assigns it a new
type.

I discovered that there are also a couple of undocumented unsafe_*
functions, such as String.unsafe_set, which behave the way their names
imply (no bound schecks).


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-03  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-02 12:02 Florian Weimer
2005-09-03  9:24 ` [Caml-list] " Damien Bobillot
2005-09-03  9:40   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2005-09-03 11:19     ` Jon Harrop
2005-09-03 12:07     ` yoann padioleau
2005-09-03 14:28       ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-03 14:35         ` yoann padioleau
2005-09-03 14:47           ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-03 14:51             ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-03 14:55               ` yoann padioleau
2005-09-04  1:58         ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-09-03  9:29 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-11-29 18:46 ` Integral solutions of rational linear equations Thomas Gazagnaire
2005-11-30  8:32   ` [Caml-list] " Sebastian Egner
2005-11-30  8:49   ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-11-30  9:06     ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-11-30  9:08     ` Christophe Raffalli

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