From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Jonathan Roewen <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Building a custom compiler environment
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:10:49 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1132027850.11813.88.camel@rosella> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad8cfe7e0511141436y4f7a6e7evaa2fcd42b2f5fe3@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:36 +1300, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> I also need to ask: why are the primitives built INTO the compiler? Is
> there any sound explanation for this?
>
> One reason I could think of is to force the linker to keep those
> symbols in the final output file (when using -output-obj). But if
> they're not used, then why do they need to be present? For Dynlink to
> work correctly?
>
> This seems to be the -one- thing to make building my custom compiler
> environment not work without requiring a customised ocamlc (with less
> primitives builtin).
Perhaps: as a workaround make a dummy object file with the required
symbols in it and link it in .. since you're not using them,
it doesn't matter how you define them .. :)
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-15 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-13 3:01 Jonathan Roewen
2005-11-13 4:05 ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-11-13 11:09 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-11-14 6:38 ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-11-14 22:36 ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-11-15 4:10 ` skaller [this message]
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