2011/8/8 Erik de Castro Lopo <[email protected]>:
> Xavier Leroy wrote:
>
>> On 08/08/2011 10:03 AM, Guillaume Yziquel wrote:
>>
>> > Then I do not see anything wrong if the code snippet you sent. However,
>> > when you change Val_int to caml_copy_nativeint, the layout of the tuple
>> > is different. [...] So if you keep the same OCaml code when reading
>> > the result value, it's no surprise that the pointer is shown in
>> > place of the integer you expected.
>>
>> This is good advice indeed: make sure your Caml type declaration
>> matches the data representation that your Caml/C stub implements...
>>
>> >    /* Package up the result as a tuple. */
>> >    v_response = caml_alloc_tuple (3) ;
>> >    Store_field (v_response, 0, Val_int (width)) ;
>> >    Store_field (v_response, 1, Val_int (height)) ;
>> >    Store_field (v_response, 2, caml_copy_string (code)) ;
>> >    CAMLreturn (v_response) ;
>>
>> Additionally, do make sure that "v_response" is registered with the GC
>> (declared with one of the CAMLlocal macros).
>
> This is strange, it wasn't declared with a CAMLlocal macro and it
> was working, but if I do declare it with one the program segfaults
> during garbage collection (caml_oldify_local_roots).
>
> The program is small, so I've included the working version of the
> C stub code below. In the Ocaml code I have:
>
>    external iec16022ecc200 :
>        int -> (* size *)
>        string -> (* code *)
>        (int * int * string) = "caml_iec16022ecc200"
>
> The C stub code below works. If I change "value v_response" to
> "CAMLlocal1 (v_response)" it segfaults. If I use caml_copy_nativeint()
> instead of Val_int when I'm preparing the v_response tuple I get what
> looks like a pointer instead of the small integer (ie [16, 160] range)
> I was expecting.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>
> #include <caml/mlvalues.h>
> #include <caml/alloc.h>
> #include <caml/memory.h>
> #include <caml/custom.h>
> #include <caml/fail.h>
> #include <caml/callback.h>
> #include <caml/bigarray.h>
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <assert.h>
>
> #include <iec16022ecc200.h>
>
>
> typedef union
> {       unsigned char * u ;
>    signed char * s ;
>    char * c ;
> } flexi_char_ptr_t ;
>
>
> CAMLprim value
> caml_iec16022ecc200 (value v_size, value v_code)
> {       unsigned char buffer [2048] ;
>        flexi_char_ptr_t code, barcode ;
>        int width, height, k ;
>        value v_response ;

This look odd to me. I always place CAMLParam and CAMLlocal
declarations are the very beginning of the code.. Don't know if this
matters here but perhaps..

>        CAMLparam2 (v_size, v_code) ;
>
>        width = height = Int_val (v_size) ;
>        code.c = String_val (v_code) ;
>
>        barcode.u = iec16022ecc200 (&width, &height, NULL, strlen (code.c), 
> code.u, NULL, NULL, NULL) ;
>
>        if (barcode.u == NULL)
>        {       failwith ("iec16022ecc200 failed") ;
>                fprintf (stderr, "%s %d: Should never get here.\n", __FILE__, 
> __LINE__) ;
>                exit (1) ;
>                } ;
>
>        /* Sanity check the buffer size. */
>        assert (width * height < (int) sizeof (buffer) - 1) ;
>
>        /* Need to convert the resulting 0x00 and 0x01 byte string to a text
>         * string that we can pass back to Ocaml. */
>        for (k = 0 ; k < width * height ; k++)
>                buffer [k] = barcode.c [k] ? '1' : '0' ;
>
>        /* Make sure buffer is string terminated. */
>        buffer [width * height] = 0 ;
>
>        /* Free the memory allocated by iec16022ecc200(). */
>        free (barcode.u) ;
>
>        barcode.u = buffer ;
>
>        /* Package up the result as a tuple. */
>        v_response = caml_alloc_tuple (3) ;
>
>        Store_field (v_response, 0, Val_int (width)) ;
>        Store_field (v_response, 1, Val_int (height)) ;
>        Store_field (v_response, 2, caml_copy_string (barcode.c)) ;
>
>    CAMLreturn (v_response) ;
> } /* caml_iec16022ecc200 */

Romain


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