ocaml/typing/type_immediacy.mli

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(* OCaml *)
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(* Jeremie Dimino, Jane Street Europe *)
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(* Copyright 2019 Jane Street Group LLC *)
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(* All rights reserved. This file is distributed under the terms of *)
(* the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the *)
(* special exception on linking described in the file LICENSE. *)
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(** Immediacy status of a type *)
type t =
| Unknown
(** We don't know anything *)
| Always
(** We know for sure that values of this type are always immediate *)
| Always_on_64bits
(** We know for sure that values of this type are always immediate
on 64 bit platforms. For other platforms, we know nothing. *)
module Violation : sig
type t =
| Not_always_immediate
| Not_always_immediate_on_64bits
end
(** [coerce t ~as_] returns [Ok ()] iff [t] can be seen as type
immediacy [as_]. For instance, [Always] can be seen as
[Always_on_64bits] but the opposite is not true. Return [Error _]
if the coercion is not possible. *)
val coerce : t -> as_:t -> (unit, Violation.t) result
(** Return the immediateness of a type as indicated by the user via
attributes *)
val of_attributes : Parsetree.attributes -> t