ocaml/bytecomp/bytesections.mli

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(* OCaml *)
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(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
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(* Copyright 2000 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* en Automatique. All rights reserved. This file is distributed *)
(* under the terms of the Q Public License version 1.0. *)
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(* $Id$ *)
(* Handling of sections in bytecode executable files *)
(** Recording sections written to a bytecode executable file *)
val init_record: out_channel -> unit
(* Start recording sections from the current position in out_channel *)
val record: out_channel -> string -> unit
(* Record the current position in the out_channel as the end of
the section with the given name *)
val write_toc_and_trailer: out_channel -> unit
(* Write the table of contents and the standard trailer for bytecode
executable files *)
(** Reading sections from a bytecode executable file *)
val read_toc: in_channel -> unit
(* Read the table of sections from a bytecode executable *)
exception Bad_magic_number
(* Raised by [read_toc] if magic number doesn't match *)
val toc: unit -> (string * int) list
(* Return the current table of contents as a list of
(section name, section length) pairs. *)
val seek_section: in_channel -> string -> int
(* Position the input channel at the beginning of the section named "name",
and return the length of that section. Raise Not_found if no
such section exists. *)
val read_section_string: in_channel -> string -> string
(* Return the contents of a section, as a string *)
val read_section_struct: in_channel -> string -> 'a
(* Return the contents of a section, as marshalled data *)
val pos_first_section: in_channel -> int
(* Return the position of the beginning of the first section *)