From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com>
To: Oleg Trott <oleg_trott@columbia.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml as C-- (was: Compiling a native code OCaml library into an .so?)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:30:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031120113047.GC1387@exomi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311200613.09139.oleg_trott@columbia.edu>
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:13:09AM -0500, Oleg Trott wrote:
> Things like this make me wonder how people outside of INRIA understand the
> inner workings of Caml compiler (enough to modify it). Just guessing by
> looking at the rather sparcely commented source? Or is there anything else?
I find most of it fairly easy to understand (although I haven't tried to
modify it). Just looking at the definitions of the types for the various
representations is very enlightening.
> In particular, I'm curious if parts of Caml compiler, such as "asmcomp", could
> be used as a sort of C--, i.e. a weakly typed backend for another language,
> especially if the language itself is written in Caml.
It's actually called C--...did you know that already?
Look in the asmcomp and testasmcomp directories if you didn't already...
The license might be an issue in actually using the code in a compiler
for another language, though.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-20 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-19 23:49 [Caml-list] Compiling a native code OCaml library into an .so? Aleksey Nogin
2003-11-20 3:33 ` Kamil Shakirov
2003-11-20 4:57 ` Aleksey Nogin
2003-11-20 11:13 ` [Caml-list] Caml as C-- (was: Compiling a native code OCaml library into an .so?) Oleg Trott
2003-11-20 11:30 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen [this message]
2003-11-20 17:07 ` Oleg Trott
2003-11-20 11:46 ` Christian Lindig
2003-11-20 11:45 ` [Caml-list] Caml as C-- ZHAO Wei
2003-11-20 16:37 ` [Caml-list] Caml as C-- (was: Compiling a native code OCaml library into an .so?) Oleg Trott
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