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From: "François Bobot" <francois.bobot@cea.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Presumed bug in OCaml's garbage collector or in its Weak module...
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:55:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8ac99d8-d1a1-9e16-4750-43c3f4fb1546@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C2FC03B5-03F9-4739-B005-58DFBE0E2462@marneu.com>

On 18/06/2016 19:39, "Martin R. Neuhäußer" wrote:
> Just for the sake of completeness:
> The test case works correctly, if ephemerons are used to simulate a weak set. See the corresponding test case „gcbug3.ml“.
> So there seems to at least exist a (sub-optimal) work-around in OCaml 4.03.0 and later.
>

Thank you for all these repro cases and investigations!

> I hesitate a bit before opening an „official“ issue on Mantis as I might very well overlook some detail.

You should not hesitate since you created nice repro cases that behave differently on ocaml 
versions. Perhaps at the end it is not a bug, but it is easier to keep track of problems on a bug 
tracker. In the mean time I will look at it.


Thanks,


-- 
François

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-21 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-17 18:09 "Martin R. Neuhäußer"
2016-06-17 19:23 ` Gabriel Scherer
2016-06-18 15:15   ` "Martin R. Neuhäußer"
2016-06-17 19:41 ` Török Edwin
2016-06-17 20:29   ` "Martin R. Neuhäußer"
2016-06-18 10:59     ` Josh Berdine
2016-06-18 15:11   ` "Martin R. Neuhäußer"
2016-06-18 16:54   ` Leo White
2016-06-21 12:43     ` François Bobot
2016-06-21 19:37       ` Alain Frisch
2016-06-22  8:12         ` François Bobot
2016-06-18 17:39 ` "Martin R. Neuhäußer"
2016-06-21 11:55   ` François Bobot [this message]
2016-06-27 11:35     ` AW: " Neuhaeusser, Martin

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