ocaml-containers/src/codegen/containers_codegen.mli
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(** {1 Code generators}
The code generator library is designed to be used from a build system
(for example, from [dune]) to generate efficient code for features
that are harder to provide at runtime.
The idea is that the build system should invoke some OCaml script
that depends on [containers.codegen]; the script uses the DSL below
to describe what code to generate (e.g. a description of a bitfield type)
and emits a [.ml] file (and possibly a [.mli] file).
For example, the build script might contain:
{[
module CG = Containers_codegen
let () =
let module B = CG.Bitfield in
let b = B.make ~name:"t" () in
B.field_bit b "x";
B.field_bit b "y";
B.field_bit b "z";
B.field_int b ~width:5 "foo";
CG.emit_file "foo.mli" [B.gen_mli b];
CG.emit_file "foo.ml" [B.gen_ml b];
()
]}
and this will produce [foo.ml] and [foo.mli] with a bitfield containing
[x], [y], and [z].
*)
module Fmt = CCFormat
type code
(** {2 Representation of OCaml code} *)
module Code : sig
type t = code
val pp : t Fmt.printer
val to_string : t -> string
val mk_pp : unit Fmt.printer -> t
val mk_str : string -> t
val in_struct : string -> t list -> t
val in_sig : string -> t list -> t
end
(** {2 Generate efficient bitfields that fit in an integer} *)
module Bitfield : sig
type t
val make : ?emit_failure_if_too_wide:bool -> name:string -> unit -> t
(** Make a new bitfield with the given name.
@param name the name of the generated type
@param emit_failure_if_too_wide if true, generated code includes a runtime
assertion that {!Sys.int_size} is wide enough to support this type *)
val field_bit : t -> string -> unit
(** [field_bit ty name] adds a field of size [1] to the bitfield [ty],
with name [name]. The generate code will provide get/set for
a boolean. *)
val field_int : t -> width:int -> string -> unit
(** [field_int ty name ~width] adds a field of size [width] to
the bitfield with name [name].
The accessors will be for integers of [width] bits, and the
setter might assert that the provided integer fits. *)
val total_width : t -> int
(** Total width in bits of the given bitfield. *)
val gen_mli : t -> code
(** Generate code for the type signature for the given bitfield *)
val gen_ml : t -> code
(** Generate code for the implementation for the given bitfield *)
end
val emit_file : string -> code list -> unit
(** [emit_file file cs] emits code fragments [cs] into the given file
at path [file] *)
val emit_chan : out_channel -> code list -> unit
val emit_string : code list -> string