From: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why is struct caml_ba_proxy allocated outside the GC heap and why doesn't it have a finalizer?
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 21:06:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_800qpOzaTYSvz806tfsXxxCx0fs0dNAzoe51NykpoChd+Eg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140202013846.GA11002@frosties>
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
> The GC knows which pointers point inside the GC heap and which point
> outside. So there is no problem there. The pointer must just not exist
> after the destination has been freed or it might accidentaly point to
> inside the next GC heap. Can't happen in this use case.
Exactly. Though the GC checks whether a pointer actually points into
the OCaml heap before following it, it does require some care to
guarantee that the pointer, if still reachable by the GC, is
invalidated (e.g. set to NULL) before associated memory is freed.
This may indeed not be that hard to achieve for the bigarray module.
I still prefer 2), which would also be easier to add to the current
implementation without breaking existing code.
Regards,
Markus
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Markus Mottl http://www.ocaml.info markus.mottl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-02 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-01 16:42 Goswin von Brederlow
2014-02-01 20:49 ` Markus Mottl
2014-02-02 1:38 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-02-02 2:06 ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2014-02-04 15:32 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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