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Documentation should warn about using Extract_exception before letting GC run in C code #5606

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vicuna opened this issue May 3, 2012 · 1 comment
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Documentation should warn about using Extract_exception before letting GC run in C code #5606

vicuna opened this issue May 3, 2012 · 1 comment
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vicuna commented May 3, 2012

Original bug ID: 5606
Reporter: alexey.rodriguez
Assigned to: meyer
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2013-08-31T10:49:16Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: major
Platform: x86_64
OS: Ubuntu
OS Version: 11.10
Version: 3.12.1
Category: documentation
Monitored by: wagerlabs @hcarty

Bug description

The documentation does not warn strongly enough about using Extract_exception on exception results before calling a function that can trigger a GC.

For reference see the discussion on the mailing list:

https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/arc/caml-list/2012-05/msg00003.html

The attached patch includes a warning and an example to this purpose.

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vicuna commented May 4, 2012

Comment author: meyer

Thanks, patch (with minor modifications) has been applied as r12431.

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