Re: [Caml-list] Raising invalid_argument with a constructed string.

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

It may make sense to have caml_{failwith,invalid_argument}_value
variants of the exception-raising functions that take a parameter, and
be implemented using caml_raise_with_arg(s) directly instead of
caml_raise_with_string. Could you open a mantis issue or submit a
github pull request to track the question and continue discussion?

  http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/
  https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pulls

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:43 AM, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:
> immanuel litzroth wrote:
>> caml_invalid_argument(str) is no return and does not free it's
>> argument.
>> So calling it with a string constructed dynamically will mean it'll never
>> get freed.
>> I could construct an ocaml string and pass that to caml_raise_with_arg,
>> but I don't seem to be able to get to the caml_exn_Invalid_argument from
>> c. Am I missing something?
>
> Possibly - it's surprising that you want dynamic strings with an exception such as Invalid_argument which is never supposed to be caught and similarly with Failure where you shouldn't be matching on the string argument.
>
> At a push, you can retrieve the Invalid_argument exception from caml_global_data (see byterun/fail.c), but that is essentially hacking the runtime to do so...
>
>
> David
>
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