From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E51BB84 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:35:32 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aj0CACoE10jAXQImiGdsb2JhbACTHgEBARUioT+BZg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,445,1217800800"; d="scan'208";a="17593451" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 22 Sep 2008 11:35:12 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m8M9ZAiI011908 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:35:12 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjIBAKID10iGnQCBjWdsb2JhbACTHgEBAQEJCwgHE6E8gWY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,445,1217800800"; d="scan'208";a="15212888" Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr ([134.157.0.129]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 22 Sep 2008 11:35:11 +0200 Received: from hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr (hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr [134.157.168.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.3/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id m8M9ZA3g006982 ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:35:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 166 Received: from [134.157.168.28] (glondu@nickel.pps.jussieu.fr [134.157.168.28]) by hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr (8.13.4/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id m8M9Z8L0018774 ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:35:09 +0200 Message-ID: <48D766CC.5020401@glondu.net> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:35:08 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Glondu?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bill yan Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What's the purpose of the static library? References: <48D712A8.6090506@sun.com> In-Reply-To: <48D712A8.6090506@sun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.166]); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:35:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8307/Mon Sep 22 07:05:57 2008 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 48D766CE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Miltered: at jchkmail.jussieu.fr with ID 48D766CE.005 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 48D766CE.005/134.157.168.1/hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr/hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 48D766CE.005 on jchkmail.jussieu.fr : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=. B=0.061 -> S=0.061 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 usr:01 lib:01 ocaml:01 bigarray:01 cmxa:01 lib:01 stubs:01 native-code:01 bytecode:01 -custom:01 cheers:01 steph:98 caml-list:01 executables:01 bill yan a écrit : > I noticed there are some static libraries(.a) installed with ocaml, for > example, /usr/lib/ocaml/bigarray.a. What's the purpose of those static > libraries? Thanks a lot. They contain (natively) compiled OCaml code. An OCaml library compiled in native mode (usually) consists of a .a and a .cmxa file, the former containing OCaml-specific information. They are not to be confused with lib*.a files, which contain compiled C stubs, and are needed for generating native-code executables, and bytecode ones in -custom mode. Cheers, -- Stéphane