Re: memory handling with native code

[Bardur Arantsson <spam@scientician.net>]

Michael Wohlwend wrote:
> I'm trying to make an interface to a c++ lib of a friend of me, it's getting better, but questions about 
 > the memory management came up:
> Should I wrap the pointer in a custom object?
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Since we're on this subject: I was wondering whether anyone on the list 
has investigated if it's possible to use the C++ boost::shared_ptr<> or 
tr1::shared_ptr<> for that matter and OCaml's custom blocks to 
interoperate so that one can avoid having to do manual custom 
block/pointer management on the C/C++ side of things?

I've always found the manual custom block/pointer management to be one 
of the more annoying aspects of OCaml's FFI.

Cheers,

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Bardur Arantsson
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