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From: "Sussillo, David" <sussillo@ftintl.com>
To: "'caml-list@inria.fr'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: unsigned word type in OCaml?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 99 14:23:00 PST	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36B23B0D@smtp.ftintl.com> (raw)


Hello,

I'm working on a low level systems project, and I'm thinking about using   
OCaml as the langauge.  However, try as I might, I simply cannot find a   
reference to a machine word type.

More specially, I need:
a. byte access to machine words
b. unsigned 32 bit quantities (e.g. physical address)
c. bitwise boolean operations (shifts, not, and & or)

Have I missed something either in the mailing list or the documentation?   
 What about (yuk) storing my OCaml words as strings and then  passing   
these strings to C and operating on them there? Wouldn't be great, but   
maybe a it's a temporary solution.

Thanks,
dave   




             reply	other threads:[~1999-01-29 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-29 22:23 Sussillo, David [this message]
1999-01-31 12:20 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
1999-02-01 14:10 ` Xavier Leroy

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