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diff --git a/HACKING.adoc b/HACKING.adoc index 68faafb332..d751186899 100644 --- a/HACKING.adoc +++ b/HACKING.adoc @@ -127,6 +127,21 @@ link:typing/HACKING.adoc[]. === Runtime system +The low-level routines that OCaml programs use during their execution: +garbage collection, interaction with the operating system +(IO in particular), low-level primitives to manipulate some OCaml data +structures, etc. Mostly implemented in C, with some rare bits of +assembly code in architecture-specific files. The "includes" +corresponding to the `.c` files are in the link:runtime/caml[] +subdirectory. + +Some files are only used by bytecode programs, some only used by +native-compiled programs, but most of the runtime code is +common. (See link:runtime/Makefile[] for the list of common, +bytecode-only and native-only source files.) + +See link:runtime/HACKING.adoc[]. + === Libraries link:stdlib/[]:: The standard library. Each file is largely |