The aim is to also move the Simple/Half_simple/General stuff from
matching, but we need to split in those modules the part that are
purely structural (they go in Patterns) and the parts that are
actually compilation logic (Half_simple.of_clause), those stay in
Matching.
* Various file moves in the middle end: this is the first stage of improving separation between the middle end and backend.
* Creation of file_formats/ directory (with associated file moves) to hold the definitions of compilation artifact formats.
* Creation of lambda/ directory (with associated file moves) to hold Lambda language definition files, transformation passes and construction passes from Typedtree.
* Disable (hopefully temporarily) dynlink, debugger and ocamldoc for the dune build.
After consultation on the core developers' list I am proposing this patch to remove support for compiler plugins.
The main motivations for removing compiler plugins are:
- They are a potential security risk.
- They increase the complexity of the build system and make maintenance of the Dynlink libraries more difficult (although actually, this complexity could probably be reduced after #2268 is merged).
- Many applications of plugins should be able to be expressed by building custom compiler drivers that link against compilerlibs.
* Remove compiler plugins and hooks
* Add new function Dynlink.unsafe_get_global_symbol but keep it outside the documented API.
* Remove otherlibs/dynlink/nodynlink.ml
* Update Changes
(dune seems to choke on some 4.08 features that were used in the Env
codebase already. It's not a bad idea to ensure that the compiler
codebase works well with 4.07.)
Thomas Refis
Nicolás Ojeda Bär
Brett Gilio
Gabriel Scherer
Mark Shinwell
Thomas Refis