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How configurator reads C constants

Etienne Millon
Etienne Millon

Principal Software Engineer

Posted on Thu, 03 Jan 2019
#devtools#ocaml

Dune comes with a library to query OS-specific information, called configurator. It is able to evaluate C expressions and turn them into OCaml value. Surprisingly, it even works when compiling for a different architecture. How can it do that?

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