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Re: [Caml-list] caml_oldify_local_roots crashes
- Zakath
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Date: | 2005-01-02 (20:34) |
From: | Zakath <haiku.issa@l...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] caml_oldify_local_roots crashes |
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 04:35:53AM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, haiku.issa wrote: > > > Everything worked fine until I added a subfunction that simply > > > merges two int lists. > > I am no expert on this but I believe this implies that your interfacing > > between C and OCaml was already broken. Almost certainly something to do > > with the GC. > It often helps to add lots of calls to Gc.full_major () to your code. > One of these will crash, telling you that between that call and the > previous one, you did something bad to the heap. > > Rich. I eventually found out : I was following the book "Devloppement d'applications avec Objective Caml" instead of the OCaml manual. They were advicing to register local variables and parameters (with CAMLparam* and CAMLlocal*) when using a callback. Removing them made everything work fine. To be more accurate, it was creating a corrupted entry of local_roots. from /asmrun/roots.c (or byterun), there was (lr->next == lr) in some point, which was causing the looping. May be this should be said in the Manual ? Thnaks for your help Alexandre