Building OCaml from assembly August 30, 2024At work I’ve been focusing on improving the debugging experience with OCaml. As part of that I’ve discovered how some of the pieces fit together, that might be obvious in retrospect, but are interesting to at least me so I’m going to post details about them here. The first nugget is you can hand compile an OCaml program into a final executable. What do I mean? You can ask the OCaml compiler to output all the assembly generated that goes into a...
