]> Are there any plans to add a "finalize" function to externally managed bigarrays? We have a C library that allocates bigarrays in a certain complex way and needs to deallocate them when the bigarrays are no longer in use. We have thought of several ways to do this, but neither is optimal, except the last one: 1) Wrap the bigarray in a custom type that we need to drag along with it all the time. The finalizer in the custom type will then deallocate the bigarray. 2) Do without bigarrays, and move some code from Caml to C. 3) Copy the bigarray source code (bigarray_stubs.c) and modify it to accept an external finalizer. We would still use bigarrays, so that compiler optimizations are performed. 4) Ask the OCaml developers to add a way to finalize bigarrays... :-) So... any chance this will be added in the next release? Thank you, Fernando ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners