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(* Objective Caml *)
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(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
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(* *)
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(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
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(* en Automatique. All rights reserved. This file is distributed *)
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(* under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License. *)
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1996-11-08 06:48:23 -08:00
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(* *)
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(* $Id$ *)
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(* Module [Callback]: registering Caml values with the C runtime *)
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(* This module allows Caml values to be registered with the C runtime
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under a symbolic name, so that C code can later call back registered
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Caml functions, or raise registered Caml exceptions. *)
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val register: string -> 'a -> unit
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(* [Callback.register n v] registers the value [v] under
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the name [n]. C code can later retrieve a handle to [v]
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by calling [caml_named_value(n)]. *)
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val register_exception: string -> exn -> unit
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(* [Callback.register_exception n exn] registers the
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exception contained in the exception value [exn]
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under the name [n]. C code can later retrieve a handle to
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the exception by calling [caml_named_value(n)]. The exception
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value thus obtained is suitable for passign as first argument
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to [raise_constant] or [raise_with_arg]. *)
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