Hi,

I am following the discussion. But do not understand this. Is this a
solution to eliminate overhead in integer arithmetic.

Personnally I thought to try to capture the overflow status flag for the
pentium processor on my Windows XP.

Thx

Scott
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Jacques Garrigue
  To: checker@d6.com
  Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
  Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:46 AM
  Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Runtime overflow and what to do


  From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
  > >        echo "print_int Sys.word_size" > /tmp/caml$$
  > >         WORDSIZE=`ocaml /tmp/caml$$`
  > >         rm -f /tmp/caml$$
  >
  > We clearly need a "-eval" switch to ocaml, like perl's -e/n/p.  :)

  The above can be reduced to one line, without temporary file.
  In fact, I feel more like we would need a "-silent" option, to get rid
  of prompts and types (this is already the default with scripts).

  echo "print_int Sys.word_size;;" | \
  ocaml | grep "^# ." | sed -e "s/# //" -e "s/- :.*//"

  A shorter but more specific approach is

  echo "Sys.word_size;;" | ocaml | grep "# -" | sed -e "s/.*= //"

  Jacques Garrigue
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