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camlidl doesn't support managed strings [PATCH] #4398

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vicuna opened this issue Sep 19, 2007 · 1 comment
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camlidl doesn't support managed strings [PATCH] #4398

vicuna opened this issue Sep 19, 2007 · 1 comment

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vicuna commented Sep 19, 2007

Original bug ID: 4398
Reporter: aij
Assigned to: @xavierleroy
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2011-12-17T08:26:11Z)
Resolution: won't fix
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Version: 3.10.0
Category: -for CamlIDL use https://github.com/xavierleroy/camlidl/issues

Bug description

The [managed] attribute currently only works on bigarrays. This is a problem, because we are using an interface that returns malloc()ed strings. As of camlidl-1.05, the wrapper it generates copies the string and drops the reference to it.

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I am attaching a patch to allow freeing arrays. (Only tested with strings so far.) Basically it just adds a .is_managed field to array_attributes, and calls free() on the array after copying it in array_c_to_ml.

A proper patch would probably involve some restructuring of idltypes.mli, so that it is an attribute on pointers, and so that arrays and bigarrays have an underlying pointer.

I don't know what the managed attribute should mean on function arguments, since I couldn't find any documentation on it, so it's just not handled now.

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vicuna commented Dec 17, 2011

Comment author: @xavierleroy

I'm closing this PR because CamlIDL has been dormant since 2004. It now lives (or at least sleeps) on http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/camlidl/ [^] . Anyone who still cares about CamlIDL after all these years is welcome to join the project on forge.ocamlcore.org and breathe some life in it.

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