Re: [Caml-list] unmarshaling large data from string on 32 bits

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

If you don't mind going through a temporary file,
Marshal.{to,from}_channel should work fine.

You should consider opening a problem report to OCaml upstream (
http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/ ) explaining the use-case and asking for
a large-string-safe API (eg. taking and returning lists of strings).

Note that on 32bit architectures, Buffer.t is *also* limited to 16Mio.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Enrico Tassi <enrico.tassi@inria.fr> wrote:
> Hello, I've just discovered that on 32 bits systems strings are
> limited to 16M.  I'm using strings as buffers holding data to
> be unmarshaled.  I could use another data structure, like a Buffer.t,
> but I see no API for unmarshaling from a Buffer.t.
>
> Is there another way? Is there code out there implementing that?
>
> Best,
> --
> Enrico Tassi
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