ocaml/typing/primitive.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   *)
(*  Automatique.  Distributed only by permission.                      *)
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(* $Id$ *)

(* Description of primitive functions *)

type description =
  { prim_name: string;         (* Name of primitive  or C function *)
    prim_arity: int;           (* Number of arguments *)
    prim_alloc: bool;          (* Does it allocates or raise? *)
    prim_native_name: string;  (* Name of C function for the nat. code gen. *)
    prim_native_float: bool }  (* Does the above operate on unboxed floats? *)

val parse_declaration: int -> string list -> description
val print_description: description -> unit