The Caml Hump: Saffire

Saffire is a static analysis program that detects bugs in programs that use the OCaml/C foreign function interface. Saffire works by performing type inference across both OCaml and C to make sure that values are used consistently across the language boundary. For instance, if a OCaml passes a record to a C function, that C function should not treat the data as an integer. Saffire also tracks what C variables point into the OCaml heap and ensure they are always registered with CAMLparam/local before any allocation functions are called.