Re: [Caml-list] Functors

[Olivier Grisel <olivier.grisel@ensta.org>]

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Alain.Frisch@ens.fr a écrit :
| On Thu, 6 May 2004, Jon Harrop wrote:
|>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.
|

Yes, but what about embedding ocamldefun as option/switch in the
compiler's command. Users could see it as another optimization option
easy enough to trigger by just adding or removing a flag in the makefile.

Those who wants to perform static analysis could use some other switch
to explicitely dump the defunctorised source code, eg :

$ ocamlopt -dump-defun foo.ml > defun_foo.ml

best
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Olivier
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