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Give back a Pair from C to OCaml?

Oliver Bandel
- Berke Durak
- Till Varoquaux
  - Oliver Bandel
    - Richard Jones
      - Oliver Bandel
      - Alain Frisch
- Florent Monnier

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Alain Frisch <alain@f...>
Subject:	CAMLprim and co (was: Give back a Pair from C to OCaml?)

Richard Jones wrote:
> It's not really a good idea to "throw out" CAMLprim.  It expands to
> something useful on Windows.

CAMLexport was more appropriate. CAMLprim is used by the OCaml Makefiles 
to build to table of C primitives available by default in an OCaml runtime.

I said "was" because in the forthcoming OCaml 3.11, CAMLexport will be 
useless even on Windows (but it might be a good idea to keep it, just as 
an annotation).

-- Alain