[MLton-devel] calling SML from C; reentrance

[Stephen Weeks]

> One possible advantage of executing a function call on top of a stack is
> that the function could inheret the exception handler of the stack.

Since C doesn't have exceptions, I think the right semantics for an
unhandled exception in a C callback is to fail.  If the programmer
doesn't want failure, they have to handle the exception and return an
appropriate error code to C.


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