Hello, David.
I saw your PolyML last commits on github.
I'm impressed! You've considered all my remarks!
Many thanks!

P.S.
Foreign.Error.getLastError will be very useful for
https://github.com/kni/sml-iconv :-)

2016-11-15 18:35 GMT+02:00 David Matthews <[email protected]>:
> I'm still thinking about this.  It would certainly be useful to get the
> error result: errno in Unix and GetLastError and possibly also errno in
> Windows.  It don't see a way to specify this as a return type in the FFI
> calls.
>
> The main problem is that there can be invisible calls into the run-time
> system as a result of either heap exhaustion or stack overflow.  As a first
> step perhaps the error state should be saved explicitly across these so it
> doesn't change under the feet of the application.
>
> David
>
>
> On 13/11/2016 11:49, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>
>> * David Matthews:
>>
>>> The difficulty with getting errno in this way is that by the time you
>>> get it it may have changed from the value it had.  Any calls to the
>>> run-time system may involve a system call that could affect it.
>>
>>
>> Would it make sense to use a special return type which instructs
>> PolyML to obtain the errno value at the time of return?  This would
>> address the synchronization issue.
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