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/**************************************************************************/
/*                                                                        */
/*                                 OCaml                                  */
/*                                                                        */
/*             Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt           */
/*                                                                        */
/*   Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et     */
/*     en Automatique.                                                    */
/*                                                                        */
/*   All rights reserved.  This file is distributed under the terms of    */
/*   the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the          */
/*   special exception on linking described in the file LICENSE.          */
/*                                                                        */
/**************************************************************************/

/* exec.h : format of executable bytecode files */

#ifndef CAML_EXEC_H
#define CAML_EXEC_H

#ifdef CAML_INTERNALS

/* Executable bytecode files are composed of a number of sections,
   identified by 4-character names.  A table of contents at the
   end of the file lists the section names along with their sizes,
   in the order in which they appear in the file:

   offset 0 --->  initial junk
                  data for section 1
                  data for section 2
                  ...
                  data for section N
                  table of contents:
                    descriptor for section 1
                    ...
                    descriptor for section N
                  trailer
 end of file --->
*/

/* Structure of t.o.c. entries
   Numerical quantities are 32-bit unsigned integers, big endian */

struct section_descriptor {
  char name[4];                 /* Section name */
  uint32_t len;                   /* Length of data in bytes */
};

#define EXEC_MAGIC_LENGTH 12

/* Structure of the trailer. */

struct exec_trailer {
  uint32_t num_sections;               /* Number of sections */
  char magic[EXEC_MAGIC_LENGTH];       /* The magic number */
  struct section_descriptor * section; /* Not part of file */
};

#define TRAILER_SIZE (4+EXEC_MAGIC_LENGTH)

/* Magic number for this release */

#define EXEC_MAGIC "Caml1999X027"

#endif /* CAML_INTERNALS */

#endif /* CAML_EXEC_H */