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From: Alain.Frisch@ens.fr
To: Jon Harrop <jdh30@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Functors
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 22:23:47 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.44.0405062221010.23492-100000@clipper.ens.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405061216.53738.jdh30@cam.ac.uk>

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Jon Harrop wrote:

> As someone else said, using a "defunctorizer" apparently makes it impossible
> to perform some static analysis.

I don't know who said that, but Julien Signoles said the opposite:

> Morever, static analysis tools do not generally correctly work on
> functorized programs: so a source-to-source defunctorizer as ocamldefun
> can be used by these tools while a defunctorizer directly included in
> the compiler cannot.

To rephrase it: since some static analysis are difficult to perform on
fonctors, it is good to have a standalone defunctorizer (not burried
into the compiler) to be used as a first pass of the analysis.

-- Alain

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-06 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-02  9:12 Jon Harrop
2004-05-02 10:24 ` Martin Jambon
2004-05-02 13:34   ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-02 14:12     ` skaller
2004-05-02 16:49       ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-03  0:20         ` skaller
2004-05-03 14:43           ` Jacques Carette
2004-05-03 16:09             ` Alain.Frisch
2004-05-03 18:53               ` Jacques Carette
2004-05-03 19:17                 ` [Caml-list] Mathematica Jon Harrop
2004-05-03 22:51                 ` [Caml-list] Functors Alain.Frisch
2004-05-03 16:02     ` Julien Signoles
2004-05-03 18:41       ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-04  7:25         ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2004-05-05  8:15         ` Julien Signoles
2004-05-05 20:41           ` brogoff
2004-05-06 11:16             ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-06 20:23               ` Alain.Frisch [this message]
2004-05-06 18:26                 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-05-06 12:26             ` Julien Signoles
2004-05-06 16:35               ` brogoff
2004-05-02 17:18   ` David Brown

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