ocaml/stdlib/obj.mli

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(*                           Objective Caml                            *)
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(*            Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt         *)
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(*  Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et   *)
(*  en Automatique.  All rights reserved.  This file is distributed    *)
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(* $Id$ *)

(** Operations on internal representations of values.

   Not for the casual user. 
*)

type t

external repr : 'a -> t = "%identity"
external obj : t -> 'a = "%identity"
external magic : 'a -> 'b = "%identity"
external is_block : t -> bool = "obj_is_block"
external is_int : t -> bool = "%obj_is_int"
external tag : t -> int = "obj_tag"
external size : t -> int = "%obj_size"
external field : t -> int -> t = "%obj_field"
external set_field : t -> int -> t -> unit = "%obj_set_field"
external new_block : int -> int -> t = "obj_block"
external dup : t -> t = "obj_dup"
external truncate : t -> int -> unit = "obj_truncate"

val no_scan_tag : int
val closure_tag : int
val infix_tag : int
val object_tag : int
val abstract_tag : int
val string_tag : int
val double_tag : int
val double_array_tag : int
val final_tag : int

(** The following two functions are deprecated.  Use module {!Marshal} instead. *)

val marshal : t -> string
val unmarshal : string -> int -> t * int