[MLton-user] FFI and pointer relocation

[Dave Herman]

> GC may move the ref cell.  As a rule of thumb (unless you really know
> what you are doing), any data you wish to modify on the C side should
> be allocated from the C heap.  If you wish this stuff to work from
> both SML/NJ and MLton, I recommend that you use ML-NLFFI (the learning
> curve is a bit steep, but it works).

Yeah, I've briefly played with ML-NLFFI before but MLton's native FFI is 
so easy to use that I've stuck with that for now.

For now I'll just allocate the cell in C and export a C function to 
check if the cell has changed.

> If you need help with ML-NLFFI, please post the C API (necessary
> function prototypes and type (forward) declarations) to the list, and
> someone (probably me) can prepare a sample (of how to use ML-NLFFI)
> and post it to the list.

I may do this in the future but I'm afraid I don't really have time to 
play with ML-NLFFI at the moment.

Thanks as always for the help!

Dave