On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:13:09AM -0500, Oleg Trott wrote:

> Things like this make me wonder how people outside of INRIA understand the 
> inner workings of Caml compiler (enough to modify it). Just  guessing by 
> looking at the rather sparcely commented source? Or is there anything else?

I find most of it fairly easy to understand (although I haven't tried to
modify it).  Just looking at the definitions of the types for the various
representations is very enlightening.

> In particular, I'm curious if parts of Caml compiler, such as "asmcomp", could 
> be used as a sort of C--, i.e. a weakly typed backend for another language, 
> especially if the language itself is written in Caml.

It's actually called C--...did you know that already?

Look in the asmcomp and testasmcomp directories if you didn't already...

The license might be an issue in actually using the code in a compiler
for another language, though.

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