weak.h

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/*                                 OCaml                                  */
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/*             Damien Doligez, projet Para, INRIA Rocquencourt            */
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/*   Copyright 1997 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et     */
/*     en Automatique.                                                    */
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/*   All rights reserved.  This file is distributed under the terms of    */
/*   the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the          */
/*   special exception on linking described in the file LICENSE.          */
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/* Operations on weak arrays */

#ifndef CAML_WEAK_H
#define CAML_WEAK_H

#include "mlvalues.h"

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

extern value caml_ephe_none;

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#ifdef CAML_INTERNALS

struct caml_ephe_info {
  value todo;
  /* These are ephemerons which need to be marked and swept in the current
     cycle. If the ephemeron is alive, after marking, they go into the live
     list after cleaning off the unreachable keys and releasing the data
     if any of the keys are unreachable. */

  value live;
  /* These are ephemerons which are alive (marked). The keys of these ephemerons
     may be unmarked if these ephemerons were the target of a blit operation.
     The data field is never unmarked. */

  int must_sweep_ephe;
  /* At the beginning of [Phase_sweep_ephe] the [live] list is moved to the
     [todo] list since the ephemerons in the [live] list may contain unmarked
     keys if the blit operation was performed in earlier phases
     ([Phase_mark_final] or [Phase_sweep_and_mark_main]). This move is done
     exactly once per major cycle per domain. This field keeps track of whether
     this move has been done for the current cycle. */

  uintnat cycle;
  struct {
    value* todop;
    uintnat cycle;
  } cursor;
};

/** The first field 0:  weak list;
       second field 1:  data;
       others       2..:  keys;

    A weak pointer is an ephemeron with the data at caml_ephe_none
    If fields are added, don't forget to update weak.ml, [additional_values],
    and obj.ml, [Ephemeron.additional_values].


 */

#define CAML_EPHE_LINK_OFFSET 0
#define CAML_EPHE_DATA_OFFSET 1
#define CAML_EPHE_FIRST_KEY 2
#define CAML_EPHE_MAX_WOSIZE (Max_wosize - CAML_EPHE_FIRST_KEY)

#define Ephe_link(e) (*(Op_val(e) + CAML_EPHE_LINK_OFFSET))
#define Ephe_data(e) (*(Op_val(e) + CAML_EPHE_DATA_OFFSET))

struct caml_ephe_info* caml_alloc_ephe_info (void);
void caml_ephe_clean(value e);

#endif /* CAML_INTERNALS */

#endif /* CAML_WEAK_H */