[Caml-list] What does this mean?

[skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>]

Can someone explain what this means .. 

Invalid_argument("equal: abstract value")

The code is below. I am fairly sure the problem
occurs in 'assoc' trying to compare two terms
for equality.

This piece of code unravels a Felix expression term
into a three-address-code, the equality comparison
is used to eliminate common subexpressions.

let unravel syms e =
  let sube = ref [] in
  let get e = 
    try assoc e !sube 
    with Not_found ->
      let n = !(syms.counter) in incr (syms.counter);
      let name = "_tmp" ^ si n in
      sube := (e,name) :: !sube;
      name
  in
  let refer ((_,t) as e) = 
    `BEXPR_expr (get e,t),t
  in
  let idt t = t in
  let e' = 
    let rec aux e = 
      match e with
      | `BEXPR_apply ((`BEXPR_name _,_) as f, b),t
      | `BEXPR_apply ((`BEXPR_closure _,_) as f, b),t ->
        `BEXPR_apply (f, aux b),t
      | `BEXPR_apply (f,b),t -> `BEXPR_apply(aux f, aux b),t
      | `BEXPR_tuple ls,t -> `BEXPR_tuple (map aux ls),t
      | (`BEXPR_name _,t) as x -> x
      | x -> refer x
    in 
      aux e
 in !sube,e

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