[MLton] ffi improvements

Stephen Weeks MLton@mlton.org
Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:32:19 -0700


> BTW what's the story with enforcing alignment restrictions.  It's
> not the case that the C types char* and int* are semanticlly the
> same because of potential alignement constraints, but the MLton FFI
> maps them to the same Pointer.t which I think is wrong.

Can you explain how this prevents writing a certain program or causes
other problems?