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[Caml-list] Stop at exception

Magesh Kannan
- Xavier Leroy
  - Mattias Waldau
    - YAMAGATA yoriyuki
    - Xavier Leroy
      - Patrick M Doane
        
        Brian Rogoff
        
        Nicolas George
      - Christophe Raffalli
        
        David Mentre
        
        David Mentre
        
        Xavier Leroy
        
        David Monniaux
      - Mattias Waldau
        
        YAMAGATA yoriyuki
        
        Jerome Vouillon

Date:	-- (:)
From:	David Monniaux <David.Monniaux@e...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Re: Float and OCaml C interface

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Xavier Leroy wrote:

> The "float" declaration at the end instructs ocamlopt to perform (and
> optimize!) the unboxing of the arguments and the boxing of the result
> itself, rather than relying on "f" to do it.

There are several such declarations ("noalloc", "float"...). Are they
documented somewhere? Is browsing the source code of the standard library
the only way to know about them? :-)

Regards,

David Monniaux            http://www.di.ens.fr/~monniaux
Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École Normale Supérieure,
Paris, France

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