(************************************************************************) (* * The Coq Proof Assistant / The Coq Development Team *) (* v * INRIA, CNRS and contributors - Copyright 1999-2018 *) (* boxed_key = (* TODO: take a random value here. Is there a random function in OCaml? *) let bid = ref 0 in (* According to OCaml Gc module documentation, Pervasives.ref is one of the few ways of getting a boxed value the compiler will never alias. *) fun () -> incr bid; Pervasives.ref (Pervasives.ref !bid) (* A phantom type to preserve type safety *) type 'a key = boxed_key (* Comparing keys with == grants that if a key is unmarshalled (in the same process where it was created or in another one) it is not mistaken for an already existing one (unmarshal has no right to alias). If the initial value of bid is taken at random, then one also avoids potential collisions *) module HT = Hashtbl.Make(struct type t = key_type ref let equal k1 k2 = k1 == k2 let hash id = !id end) (* A key is the (unique) value inside a boxed key, hence it does not keep its corresponding boxed key reachable (replacing key_type by boxed_key would make the key always reachable) *) let values : Obj.t HT.t = HT.create 1001 (* To avoid a race condition between the finalization function and get/create on the values hashtable, the finalization function just enqueues in an imperative list the item to be collected. Being the list imperative, even if the Gc enqueues an item while run_collection is operating, the tail of the list is eventually set to Empty on completion. Kudos to the authors of Why3 that came up with this solution for their implementation of weak hash tables! *) type imperative_list = cell ref and cell = Empty | Item of key_type ref * imperative_list let collection_queue : imperative_list ref = ref (ref Empty) let enqueue x = collection_queue := ref (Item (!x, !collection_queue)) let run_collection () = let rec aux l = match !l with | Empty -> () | Item (k, tl) -> HT.remove values k; aux tl in let l = !collection_queue in aux l; l := Empty (* The only reference to the boxed key is the one returned, when the user drops it the value eventually disappears from the values table above *) let create (v : 'a) : 'a key = run_collection (); let k = mk_key () in HT.add values !k (Obj.repr v); Gc.finalise enqueue k; k (* Avoid raising Not_found *) exception InvalidKey let get (k : 'a key) : 'a = run_collection (); try Obj.obj (HT.find values !k) with Not_found -> raise InvalidKey (* Simple utils *) let default k v = try get k with InvalidKey -> v let iter_opt k f = match try Some (get k) with InvalidKey -> None with | None -> () | Some v -> f v let clear () = run_collection ()