bytesections.mli

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(*                                 OCaml                                  *)
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(*             Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt           *)
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(*   Copyright 2000 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et     *)
(*     en Automatique.                                                    *)
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(*   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.          *)
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(* Handling of sections in bytecode executable files *)

(** Recording sections written to a bytecode executable file *)

val init_record: out_channel -> unit
    (* Start recording sections from the current position in out_channel *)

val record: out_channel -> string -> unit
    (* Record the current position in the out_channel as the end of
       the section with the given name *)

val write_toc_and_trailer: out_channel -> unit
    (* Write the table of contents and the standard trailer for bytecode
       executable files *)

(** Reading sections from a bytecode executable file *)

val read_toc: in_channel -> unit
    (* Read the table of sections from a bytecode executable *)

exception Bad_magic_number
    (* Raised by [read_toc] if magic number doesn't match *)

val toc: unit -> (string * int) list
    (* Return the current table of contents as a list of
       (section name, section length) pairs. *)

val seek_section: in_channel -> string -> int
    (* Position the input channel at the beginning of the section named "name",
       and return the length of that section.  Raise Not_found if no
       such section exists. *)

val read_section_string: in_channel -> string -> string
    (* Return the contents of a section, as a string *)

val read_section_struct: in_channel -> string -> 'a
    (* Return the contents of a section, as marshalled data *)

val pos_first_section: in_channel -> int
   (* Return the position of the beginning of the first section *)

val reset: unit -> unit