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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] understanding weak
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:27:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C2CCCBB3-ECB0-425C-8029-06F1E3609051@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490B1CDC.8080808@ens-lyon.org>


Le 31 oct. 08 à 15:57, Martin Jambon a écrit :

> (fst x) would certainly cause funny effects if x were GC'ed at an
> arbitrary time after it has been added to the weak array.

You are confusing reclaiming the weak pointer (the Some x) and  
reclaiming what the weak pointer refers to (the x). It's the former  
the OP was talking about.

Best,

Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30 18:19 Warren Harris
2008-10-31  2:14 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2008-10-31  8:37   ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-10-31 14:57     ` Martin Jambon
2008-10-31 15:27       ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2008-10-31 16:52         ` Martin Jambon
2008-10-31 19:12       ` Aleksey Nogin
2008-10-31 20:10         ` Martin Jambon
2008-10-31 20:44         ` Martin Jambon

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