diff --git a/runtime/bigarray.c b/runtime/bigarray.c
index acb0d0cfeb2e..08bb5ae8f0ca 100644
--- a/runtime/bigarray.c
+++ b/runtime/bigarray.c
@@ -229,6 +229,11 @@ static int ba_compute_size(int flags, int num_dims, intnat * dim, uintnat *num_e
                          size));
 }
 
+static caml_ba_alloc_gen(int flags, int num_dims, void * data, intnat * dim, int owns_data)
+{
+    
+}
+
 /* [caml_ba_alloc] will allocate a new bigarray object in the heap.
    If [data] is NULL, the memory for the contents is also allocated
    (with [malloc]) by [caml_ba_alloc].