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It can generate portable and human readable C? Can you link to some information about that?

• loup-vaillant 10y ago
  Nothing of the sort. But on the platforms it compiles to, Ocaml can generate object files that look like they came from C. I use this feature right now to integrate a compiler in an otherwise C++ project. Here's a link to the FFI documentation: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/intfc.html http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/intfc.html But I run on Debian stable on x86-64. Not exactly an exotic platform.
  • jjnoakes 10y ago
    Is this not the bytecode embedded in C which I mentioned above?
    • loup-vaillant 10y ago
      No. It's native code, with the native runtime embedded in C.
      • jjnoakes 10y ago
        I see. So it gets me part of the way there; if only ocaml ran on my platforms. Thanks.