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From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: Mark Shinwell <mshinwell@janestreet.com>,
	 Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr>,
	"caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml release roadmap
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 16:34:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALGm1VhoikW05FxZCbxYRGgooa2NCKFRDUsQjn_rFwZr0pPEdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150526171344.GA4073@annexia.org>

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:

> Will there be implications for C bindings?  We have rather a lot ...

There will be implications, the most obvious being that the `Field`
macro will stop being an l-value so you'll have to rewrite your uses
of caml_modify and caml_initialize:

  caml_modify(&Field(v, idx), w) => caml_modify_field(v, idx, w)
  caml_initialize(&Field(v, idx, w) => caml_initialize_field(v, idx, w)

See https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/120 for more details.

I'm sure there will be other changes needed to accomodate multicore.

But we are planning to keep the sequential runtime alongside the
parallel one, at least for some time, so if you're not in a hurry to
use multicore, you'll have plenty of time to update your bindings.

-- Damien

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-04 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-06 17:24 Damien Doligez
2015-05-11 11:46 ` Francois Berenger
2015-05-11 13:31   ` Mark Shinwell
2015-05-11 13:31     ` Mark Shinwell
2015-05-26 17:13     ` Richard W.M. Jones
2015-06-04 20:34       ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2015-05-13 13:20 ` Jonas Jensen
2015-05-14 20:51   ` Damien Doligez
2015-05-14 21:20     ` Gabriel Scherer

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