Sven Luther wrote:

> Basically, early one i applied a thrid party patch (the one which allowed you
> to do ocamlc -i, which i found pretty neat), and it was totally broken in a
> subtle way, and i only noticed later when i got a very strange bug report
> about this, so, let's stay as close to possible to the upstream stuff.

I would mostly agree, but there are exceptions.

> Now, the best way for sucha function would be to be added to some of the
> external libs, no ? 

Unfortunately that won't work.

> Or do you really need to be patched against ocaml ?

Correct, the patch actually adds a function to the native code 
generators.

Until Ocaml can do inline assembly (I hope hell freezes over first :-))
this cannot be achieved without patching the compiler.

Cheers,
Erik
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