ocamlspotter support in core

[Sean McLaughlin]

To generate .spot files, all you need is the -annot flag to
ocaml{c,opt}.  It seems harmless
to enable this flag by default.  Doesn't it?  I'm not sure of the full
implications.

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Yaron Minsky <yminsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, you can't create spot files without a patched version of the compiler,
> which seems unreasonable to expect.  You could imagine making the configure
> script discover if you have an ocamlspotter-capable compiler available, but
> I don't really know oasis well enough to do that myself.
> The -annot flag gives you some help (you can figure out the types of
> expressions), but not quite as much as ocamlspotter does.  I'm hoping we'll
> get something ocamlspotter-ish into the compiler proper by 3.13...
> y
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Sean McLaughlin <seanmcl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The default make setup doesn't build spot files.  Perhaps we can
>> include the -annot option as a default compiler flag, which doesn't
>> seem to hurt if you're not using an ocamlspotter version of ocaml, but
>> makes it possible to jump to function definitions in core from user
>> programs.
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