On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:36 +1300, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> I also need to ask: why are the primitives built INTO the compiler? Is
> there any sound explanation for this?
> 
> One reason I could think of is to force the linker to keep those
> symbols in the final output file (when using -output-obj). But if
> they're not used, then why do they need to be present? For Dynlink to
> work correctly?
> 
> This seems to be the -one- thing to make building my custom compiler
> environment not work without requiring a customised ocamlc (with less
> primitives builtin).

Perhaps: as a workaround make a dummy object file with the required
symbols in it and link it in .. since you're not using them,
it doesn't matter how you define them .. :)

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