* [Caml-list] State of Saffire or other FFI-checkers @ 2012-08-22 12:28 Adrien 2012-08-22 12:58 ` Jérémie Dimino 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Adrien @ 2012-08-22 12:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Caml Mailing List Hi, I regularly stumble on Saffire which is an FFI-checker. Its webpage is dead but still accessible (along with a release tarball) through archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20100130005640/http://www.cs.umd.edu/~furr/saffire/ I've fixed the build system a bit but it seems to be missing a module named "MLast" and I'm quite obviously stuck on that. Has anyone updated saffire? Or has build sources that work? Or something at all? Or are there other checkers? Thanks, Adrien Nader ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [Caml-list] State of Saffire or other FFI-checkers 2012-08-22 12:28 [Caml-list] State of Saffire or other FFI-checkers Adrien @ 2012-08-22 12:58 ` Jérémie Dimino 2012-08-22 14:05 ` Adrien 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Jérémie Dimino @ 2012-08-22 12:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Adrien; +Cc: Caml Mailing List Le Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:28:01 +0200, Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com> a écrit : > I've fixed the build system a bit but it seems to be missing a module > named "MLast" and I'm quite obviously stuck on that. MLast is from camlp5, you can try to replace all occurrences of camlp4 by camlp5 (and install camlp5). Cheers, -- Jérémie ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [Caml-list] State of Saffire or other FFI-checkers 2012-08-22 12:58 ` Jérémie Dimino @ 2012-08-22 14:05 ` Adrien 2012-08-22 20:17 ` Adrien 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Adrien @ 2012-08-22 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: Caml Mailing List On 22/08/2012, Jérémie Dimino <jeremie@dimino.org> wrote: > Le Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:28:01 +0200, > Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> I've fixed the build system a bit but it seems to be missing a module >> named "MLast" and I'm quite obviously stuck on that. > > MLast is from camlp5, you can try to replace all occurrences of camlp4 > by camlp5 (and install camlp5). Thanks, this has unstuck me. Saffire seems to use an older camlp5 API but I know where to look for changes. Regards, Adrien Nader ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [Caml-list] State of Saffire or other FFI-checkers 2012-08-22 14:05 ` Adrien @ 2012-08-22 20:17 ` Adrien 2012-08-22 20:27 ` Kristopher Micinski 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Adrien @ 2012-08-22 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Caml Mailing List I've created a project on the OCaml forge for Saffire: https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/saffire/ Git: https://forge.ocamlcore.org/anonscm/git/saffire/saffire.git I've commited several fixes so far but it's not building yet. Right now, building yields the following error: File "src/ext/ffi/ffi_common.ml", line 208, characters 8-35: Error: Unbound constructor MLast.RfTag I've checked in all the camlp5 releases and none of them mentions RfTag; only 4 commits in the ocaml sources mention it and I couldn't see any documentation about it (saffire was built against ocaml 3.08). Also, unfortunately, I don't know camlp5. If you're interested in Saffire, you can become a commiter or simply submit patches. The work to simply see which results it can bring is probably minimal; it it proves useful in practice, there can also be more work (like maybe using bin-annot instead of being a wrapper around ocaml{c,opt} and using camlp4). Regards, Adrien Nader ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [Caml-list] State of Saffire or other FFI-checkers 2012-08-22 20:17 ` Adrien @ 2012-08-22 20:27 ` Kristopher Micinski 2012-08-23 8:28 ` Adrien 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Kristopher Micinski @ 2012-08-22 20:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Adrien; +Cc: Caml Mailing List Adrien, Cool to hear that you've sort of resurrected Saffire. I am a current UMD student, though that work was done prior to my being here, though with my advisor. I'm not sure what the state of things is with it, I found it to be really interesting work, and if you want, perhaps it would be good for us to resurrect the UMD web page? kris On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com> wrote: > I've created a project on the OCaml forge for Saffire: > https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/saffire/ > Git: https://forge.ocamlcore.org/anonscm/git/saffire/saffire.git > > I've commited several fixes so far but it's not building yet. > > Right now, building yields the following error: > File "src/ext/ffi/ffi_common.ml", line 208, characters 8-35: > Error: Unbound constructor MLast.RfTag > > I've checked in all the camlp5 releases and none of them mentions > RfTag; only 4 commits in the ocaml sources mention it and I couldn't > see any documentation about it (saffire was built against ocaml 3.08). > Also, unfortunately, I don't know camlp5. > > If you're interested in Saffire, you can become a commiter or simply > submit patches. The work to simply see which results it can bring is > probably minimal; it it proves useful in practice, there can also be > more work (like maybe using bin-annot instead of being a wrapper > around ocaml{c,opt} and using camlp4). > > Regards, > Adrien Nader > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: [Caml-list] State of Saffire or other FFI-checkers 2012-08-22 20:27 ` Kristopher Micinski @ 2012-08-23 8:28 ` Adrien 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Adrien @ 2012-08-23 8:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Kristopher Micinski; +Cc: Caml Mailing List Hi, On 22/08/2012, Kristopher Micinski <micinski@cs.umd.edu> wrote: > Adrien, > > Cool to hear that you've sort of resurrected Saffire. I am a current > UMD student, though that work was done prior to my being here, though > with my advisor. I'm not sure what the state of things is with it, I > found it to be really interesting work, and if you want, perhaps it > would be good for us to resurrect the UMD web page? > > kris Resurrecting the page could be a good thing: there are many dead links and there is a lot of data that I haven't copied. However I don't know if it would be something easy: it would probably be hard to keep the same URI and the data (if the wayback machine hasn't copied everything) might be unavailable now. -- Adrien Nader ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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