From: Alain Frisch <Alain.Frisch@inria.fr>
To: Pierre-Etienne Meunier <pierreetienne.meunier@ens-lyon.fr>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Bytecode object files structure
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:56:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45573606.10801@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611121542.30370.pierreetienne.meunier@ens-lyon.fr>
Pierre-Etienne Meunier wrote:
> According to the source of Ocaml, there's something called the
> "cmo_magic_number", systematically written at the beginning of all .cmo
> files. Does it have a real function for executing the programs, or is it just
> a way to make sure the file contains ocaml bytecode ?
It is just a way to make sure that the file contains ocaml bytecode with
the expected version.
> After that, I can't understand anything : there vaguely seems to be some
> information related to linking or so... What is the precise structure of this
> part ? Is there some kind of a bytecode assembler ?
The structure is a compilation unit descriptor, described in
bytecomp/cmo_format.mli.
-- Alain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-12 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-12 14:42 Pierre-Etienne Meunier
2006-11-12 14:56 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2006-11-13 9:16 ` [Caml-list] " Yann Régis-Gianas
[not found] ` <968382EE-B8CB-452C-A86F-684879E33798@free.fr>
2006-11-13 11:36 ` Pierre-Etienne Meunier
2006-11-15 13:41 Xavier Clerc
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