obj.ml

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(*                                 OCaml                                  *)
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(*             Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt           *)
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(*   Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et     *)
(*     en Automatique.                                                    *)
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(*   the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the          *)
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(* Operations on internal representations of values *)

type t

external repr : 'a -> t = "%identity"
external obj : t -> 'a = "%identity"
external magic : 'a -> 'b = "%identity"
external is_int : t -> bool = "%obj_is_int"
let [@inline always] is_block a = not (is_int a)
external tag : t -> int = "caml_obj_tag"
external size : t -> int = "#obj_length"
external field : t -> int -> t = "%obj_field"
external set_field : t -> int -> t -> unit = "%obj_set_field" 
external dup : t -> t = "caml_obj_dup"