From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00DABBBB for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:10:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k0S0AoaN009615 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:10:50 +0100 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i20so678667wra for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:10:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=kuIL7ANkHzUKzEuacUZMIm/Tq2ftxmK1m4O/vaqGacg0UCpuLX5hPm8gKkvt/Ra+vLFzxgTx/FJ+37W3BRroxEaDy0MIPUh/P+Fv2K+K/5lTk4b2LHqz0kny/9kdhhVU2okgussBc3KoLarDumlL15320rjTTjOwyybKDlB0Vn8= Received: by 10.65.253.16 with SMTP id f16mr799451qbs; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.35.2 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:10:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:10:48 +1300 From: Jonathan Roewen To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Allocating a caml string in C... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 43DAB68A.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 allocating:01 runtime:01 caml:02 caml:02 string:02 string:02 complex:04 startup:05 startup:05 args:05 allocate:06 void:07 silly:08 wondering:09 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Hi, I was wondering if it's safe to allocate a caml string in C -before- the runtime is initialised. IE: something like the following: value version; void main() { version =3D caml_copy_string(DST_VERSION); /* startup the system! */ caml_startup(args); } Of course, this example is pretty silly, but a more complex example does exist ;-) Jonathan