On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Jacques Garrigue wrote:

> The trouble is that you may at some point in time pass to your ML
> program a pointer to some C structure outside of the heap. Since it is
> outside of the heap, the garbage collector does not attempt to visit
> it, and this creates no problem.
> But it may happen (if your structure is freed on the C side), that at
> some time in the future a new page is added to the heap, containing
> the location where was the C structure.  If your pointer on the ML
> side is still around, this is now a pointer to somewhere in the heap,
> and the GC will attempt to visit it.

Ah.  OK.  That's reasonable- solving it in the Ocaml system would be way 
too hard to be worthwhile.

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