Richard Jones [Monday 24 July 2006] :
 >
 > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:50:32AM -0700, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
 > > I'm trying to allocate some memory outside of the caml heap, and
 > > I think caml_stat_alloc is the right function to use. Anyways,
 > > it's generating seg-faults, so I'm hoping someone can help me fix
 > > my implementation.
 > 
 > What was wrong with malloc?

caml_stat_alloc _is_ malloc, it's just that it raises the ocaml
out-of-memory exception if malloc returns NULL.