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From: "Ohad Rodeh" <ORODEH@il.ibm.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml and linux kernel programming
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:33:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OFAF89CD54.CE551A68-ONC2256ABE.003442CB@telaviv.ibm.com> (raw)

Mark Hayden wrote a kernel module in Ocaml, he posted a message on this
topic
about two years ago.  The major problem was memory allocation in a
different
segement using the Caml GC.

  Look it up, perhaps it will be of value to you.

     Ohad.


Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>@pauillac.inria.fr on 05/11/2001
12:06:04

Please respond to Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>

Sent by:  owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr


To:   Vikas Sodhani <vikas_sodhani@oryxa.com>
cc:   caml-list@inria.fr
Subject:  Re: [Caml-list] ocaml and linux kernel programming



> Hi, I am just learning the OCaml language and was hoping to receive some
> advice on the possibilities and trade offs of writing linux kernel
> modules using ocaml.

As Vitaly said, your best bet is to run the Caml code in user space
via some sort of kernel/userland gateway.  Kernel-land is a somewhat
restricted programming environment.  E.g. you can't even write kernel
code in (full) C++ because the run-time environment for C++
allocations and exceptions is not available in the kernel.  So, your
chances of getting OCaml code to run in the kernel are very slim :-)

- Xavier Leroy
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             reply	other threads:[~2001-11-05 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-05  9:33 Ohad Rodeh [this message]
2001-11-02 15:15 Vikas Sodhani
2001-11-03 20:55 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-11-05 10:06 ` Xavier Leroy

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