From: Dmitry Bely <dmitry.bely@gmail.com>
To: OCaml List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Errors in the manual
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:05:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimJSHNLWoiWOGfj7MPCGvJhLE9Pp84edM7yDcXr@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikqfEK04RbZ1VzJ2=L3DV7eir-YUOYmRmvseOH1@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Niki Yoshiuchi <aplusbi@gmail.com> wrote:
> While we are on the topic...
>
> A lot of the C functions/macros have different names in the manual.
> For example, the Bigarray allocation functions are called
> "alloc_bigarray" and "alloc_bigarray_dims" in the manual
> (http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual043.html) but are
> actually "caml_ba_alloc" and "caml_ba_alloc_dims". I've noticed a
> couple other discrepancies (I think they all dealt with allocations,
> actually).
Names without caml_ prefix are "old" ones. They are equal to prefixed
names until CAML_NAME_SPACE macro is defined:
#define alloc_bigarray caml_ba_alloc
#define alloc_bigarray_dims caml_ba_alloc_dims
For more details see caml/compatibility.h
- Dmitry Bely
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-01 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 1:31 Elnatan Reisner
2011-03-01 1:37 ` Niki Yoshiuchi
2011-03-01 8:09 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-03-01 14:05 ` Dmitry Bely [this message]
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