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From: Romain Bardou <Romain.Bardou@lri.fr>
To: Alp Mestan <alp@mestan.fr>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Question about the -dlambda option of ocamlc/ocamlopt
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:02:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C9F340.9080400@lri.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cbe39dfc0903241130j3b56e31n5d051c6447fa3345@mail.gmail.com>

Alp Mestan a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently studying the lambda code generation phase of the standard 
> OCaml compiler.
> 
> You can take a look at this for an example : 
> http://blog.mestan.fr/2009/03/22/ocaml-and-dlambda-1/
> 
> I'm wondering what is 'makeblock' for ?
> And why is there '/<a number>' after every variable/function name ? 
> Isn't the name sufficient for identifying variables ?
> 
> Thanks !

If I recall correctly, makeblock is for block allocation and is used to 
make empty blocks for everything that does not fit in just one integer.

The /<a number> is used to uniquely identify identifiers. In this example :

let x = 1 in let x = 2 in x

The /<a number> allows you to know which "let" variable is represented 
by the "x" at the end.

-- 
Romain Bardou


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-24 18:30 Alp Mestan
2009-03-25  9:02 ` Romain Bardou [this message]
2009-03-25 10:07   ` [Caml-list] " Alp Mestan

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