ocaml/stdlib/camlinternalLazy.ml

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(*                                OCaml                                *)
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(*            Damien Doligez, projet Para, INRIA Rocquencourt          *)
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(*  Copyright 1997 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et   *)
(*  en Automatique.  All rights reserved.  This file is distributed    *)
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(*  the special exception on linking described in file ../LICENSE.     *)
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(* Internals of forcing lazy values. *)

exception Undefined;;

let raise_undefined = Obj.repr (fun () -> raise Undefined);;

(* Assume [blk] is a block with tag lazy *)
let force_lazy_block (blk : 'arg lazy_t) =
  let closure = (Obj.obj (Obj.field (Obj.repr blk) 0) : unit -> 'arg) in
  Obj.set_field (Obj.repr blk) 0 raise_undefined;
  try
    let result = closure () in
    (* do set_field BEFORE set_tag *)
    Obj.set_field (Obj.repr blk) 0 (Obj.repr result);
    Obj.set_tag (Obj.repr blk) Obj.forward_tag;
    result
  with e ->
    Obj.set_field (Obj.repr blk) 0 (Obj.repr (fun () -> raise e));
    raise e
;;

(* Assume [blk] is a block with tag lazy *)
let force_val_lazy_block (blk : 'arg lazy_t) =
  let closure = (Obj.obj (Obj.field (Obj.repr blk) 0) : unit -> 'arg) in
  Obj.set_field (Obj.repr blk) 0 raise_undefined;
  let result = closure () in
  (* do set_field BEFORE set_tag *)
  Obj.set_field (Obj.repr blk) 0 (Obj.repr result);
  Obj.set_tag (Obj.repr blk) (Obj.forward_tag);
  result
;;

(* [force] is not used, since [Lazy.force] is declared as a primitive
   whose code inlines the tag tests of its argument.  This function is
   here for the sake of completeness, and for debugging purpose. *)

let force (lzv : 'arg lazy_t) =
  let x = Obj.repr lzv in
  let t = Obj.tag x in
  if t = Obj.forward_tag then (Obj.obj (Obj.field x 0) : 'arg) else
  if t <> Obj.lazy_tag then (Obj.obj x : 'arg)
  else force_lazy_block lzv
;;

let force_val (lzv : 'arg lazy_t) =
  let x = Obj.repr lzv in
  let t = Obj.tag x in
  if t = Obj.forward_tag then (Obj.obj (Obj.field x 0) : 'arg) else
  if t <> Obj.lazy_tag then (Obj.obj x : 'arg)
  else force_val_lazy_block lzv
;;