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- Roberto Bagnara
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Date: | 2004-06-05 (15:33) |
From: | Roberto Bagnara <bagnara@c...> |
Subject: | [Caml-list] Garbage collecting _everything_ |
Dear all, we have written a small OCaml program that interfaces to some C++ code. For all the classes we have interfaced, we have defined the required `struct custom_operations' that is then registered with `register_custom_operations()' and referred to in calls to `alloc_custom()'. The finalization functions invoke `delete' on the pointer embedded into the OCaml value. We do this with 6 different C++ classes that are all handled in exactly the same way. Then we have a small test program written in OCaml whose last line is at_exit Gc.full_major;; and for which valgrind (http://valgrind.kde.org/) says we have memory leaks. We have then verified that the finalization functions for 2 of the created C++ objects are never called. As we are really beginners at OCaml programming, we are sure we are missing something, but we don't know what. Isn't `at_exit Gc.full_major;;' supposed to collect _everything_ at program termination time? Thanks in advane for your advice, Roberto -- Prof. Roberto Bagnara Computer Science Group Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy http://www.cs.unipr.it/~bagnara/ mailto:bagnara@cs.unipr.it ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners