To: tews@irritatie.cs.kun.nl
Subject: Re: Obj module
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:09:00 +0100"
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Message-Id: <19990120112904E.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:29:04 +0900
From: Jacques GARRIGUE <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
From: Hendrik Tews <tews@irritatie.cs.kun.nl>
> where can I find documentation on the Obj module in the standard
> library?
There is (intentionally) no documentation to this module.
But it shall be rather easy to understand once you read the chapter on
interfacing with C in the reference manual, which gives lots of
information about how values are represented physically.
> Can somebody explain the meaning of those C primitives starting
> with a percent sign, eg "%identity"?
These primitives are handled in a special way by the compiler.
For "%identity", it is simply discarded, as you might expect.
Some others are converted to instructions of the abstract machine.
And finally some may really call C primitives.
The only way to really know what happens is to read the compiler's
sources.
Jacques
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