[Caml-list] [ANN] OCaml Meeting 2010, end of subscription is on next friday

2010-03-30 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
Original announce: https://forge.ocamlcore.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=572 Only 5 days before the end of subscription. We are already 60 people. For the third time, I am proud to invite all OCaml enthusiasts to join us at OCaml Meeting 2010 in Paris. This year event takes place in

[Caml-list] ICFP 2010 deadline

2010-03-30 Thread Wouter Swierstra
On behalf of Stephanie Weirich, this year's PC Chair, I would like to emphasize that the deadline for ICFP this year is at *14:00 UTC*. You may want to double check what time this is using the following link:

Re: [Caml-list] Re: Random segfaults / out of memory

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Leroy
So, is it really forbidden to release the global lock in a noalloc function? Yes. Actually, it is forbidden to call any function of the OCaml runtime system from a noalloc function. Explanation: ocamlopt-generated code caches in registers some global variables of importance to the OCaml

Re: [Caml-list] Re: Random segfaults / out of memory

2010-03-30 Thread Markus Mottl
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:57, Xavier Leroy xavier.le...@inria.fr wrote: Yes.  Actually, it is forbidden to call any function of the OCaml runtime system from a noalloc function. It may not always be clear to developers whether a function provided by the OCaml API is safe. E.g. calling Val_int