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Bug#993045: Please bring back the -unsafe-string switch



Le 06/09/2021 à 10:08, Julien Puydt a écrit :
>> How come this is an issue only now? The transition to OCaml 4.11.1
>> (the
>> first version with unsafe strings disabled in Debian) was done last
>> November...
> 
> Very good question. I just checked: scilab 6.1.0 didn't need unsafe
> strings ; 6.1.1 does.

This goes against evolution. New code should not need unsafe strings. Is
a (tentative) source package for 6.1.1 available? I can have a closer
look...

> Is phasing out unsafe strings an OCaml upstream decision?

Yes.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane


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