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Date: | 2006-03-31 (17:59) |
From: | Dmitry Bely <dbely@m...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Documentation request: allocation of bigarrays in C |
sayan@crans.org writes: > Please add the following fact to the Bigarray module documentation (I > had to look at the c source header) and/or correct it as necessary : > > A pointer allocated from C using malloc is not freed by the OCaml > garbage collector. Of course - it's not possible in general. > If you want to be GC-friendly, use the bigarray > allocation macros with a NULL pointer to allocate memory then get a > pointer to the data array. If you need GC-controlled bigarray, why simply not to use Bigarray.Genarray.create? - Dmitry Bely