[MLton-user] Feature request: MLton.Pointer

[Matthew Fluet]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, John Reppy wrote:
> The MLton.Pointer structure should have
>
> 	val sizeofPtr : word
>
> so that one can allocate arrays of pointers in the C heap.

Sounds reasonable.

BTW, for importing "malloc", you should use
   _import "malloc": C_Size.word -> MLton.Pointer.t;
rather than
   _import "malloc": Word32.word -> MLton.Pointer.t;
to pass the appropriately sized 'size_t' object on 32-bit and 64-bit 
platforms.

The "structure C_Size : WORD" is available from 
"$(SML_LIB)/basis/c-types.mlb".

You could also use C_Size.wordSize to compute the sizeof a pointer (MLton 
asserts that sizeof(void*) == sizeof(size_t) and CHAR_BIT == 8).