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Re: native code incompatibilities vs byte code incompatibilities



On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:02:31AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> OK, I see the point now.  I had assumed -- wrongly -- that the hash of
> a.cmo would change in this case, but it does not.  So we need a
> version of ocamlobjinfo which can handle *.cmx files as well.

Right, that's our issue to. Maybe now we are two different large
distribution we have more power to go and ask INRIA for this?

Julien: can you refresh our memory about the tool (IIRC) you spotted in
the OCaml sources able to extract info from *.cmx files?

> There is another problem with ocamlobjinfo too.  See:
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/fa.caml/msg/f2c3e9e8cfa628b3?hl=en&;
> 
> In Fedora we have avoided this by having a list of modules in the
> standard library which we just ignore (Asttypes, Outcometree and
> Cmo_format so far).

Ok, maybe we can keep it on a shared wiki page to ease of maintenance?

Cheers.

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