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How can I generate an AST?

Loup Vaillant
- Daniel de Rauglaudre
  - Loup Vaillant
    - Daniel de Rauglaudre
      - Loup Vaillant
        
        Massimiliano Brocchini
        
        Daniel de Rauglaudre
        
        Loup Vaillant
- Alain Frisch
  - Loup Vaillant

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Alain Frisch <alain@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] How can I generate an AST?

Loup Vaillant wrote:
> Can anybody give me a pointer about how to do this?

The function Pparse.file is the one that makes the compiler accepts
either source code or marshaled ASTs. By looking at its implementation
and its call sites, you'll discover that the binary format is the
concatenation of a magic string Config.ast_impl_magic_number (resp.
Config.ast_intf_magic_number) and the marshaled version of a
Parsetree.structure (resp. a Parsetree.signature).

-- Alain