On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:40:56PM -0600, Brian Hurt wrote: [....]

> Actually, I think Ocaml uses C's runtime libraries and builds on top of
> them.  For example, if I understand things correctly, Ocaml's printf is a
> wrapper which calls C's printf. 

Sorry to be picky, but this particular claim is wrong:

Ocaml printf routine is implemented in ocaml/stdlib/printf.ml

and does not call C printf related stuff (except perhaps for
float_to_string conversions).

The format4 type is wired inside the compiler, notably inside
ocaml/typing/typecore.ml function type_format.

Actually, I tend to believe that on the contrary

1. Ocaml runtime (mostly the GC) uses the C library

2. Ocaml standard library (and others, notably the Unix module) don't
use that much the C library except thru trivial wrappers (which
essentially deals with Ocaml data representation and its conversion to
native C data types). Most of the standard library is coded in Ocaml,
not in C.

Regards.

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