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| author |  Pierre-Marie Pédrot <pierre-marie.pedrot@inria.fr> | 2017-07-20 14:47:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Pierre-Marie Pédrot <pierre-marie.pedrot@inria.fr> | 2017-07-20 14:47:24 +0200 |
| commit | 47b699b7d72630d2edc512594a2c813d7fb2f7a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a21fd8a7db9ad7de57c796fa49e3a8fbb7d173a /library | |
| parent | 945d7bfa27b71137d86a4a46aeeced90d4b59303 (diff) | |
Documenting the purity / marshallability invariant of persistent states.
Diffstat (limited to 'library')
| -rw-r--r-- | library/libobject.mli | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | library/summary.mli | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/library/libobject.mli b/library/libobject.mli index 1a21ece2b..6f935bffe 100644 --- a/library/libobject.mli +++ b/library/libobject.mli @@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ open Mod_subst rebuild the non volatile content of a section from the data collected by the discharge function + Any type defined as a persistent object must be pure (e.g. no references) and + marshallable by the OCaml Marshal module (e.g. no closures). + *) type 'a substitutivity = diff --git a/library/summary.mli b/library/summary.mli index a6ad49950..d093d95f2 100644 --- a/library/summary.mli +++ b/library/summary.mli @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ type marshallable = | `No (* Full data will be store in memory, e.g. for Undo *) | `Shallow ] (* Only part of the data will be marshalled to a slave process *) +(** Types of global Coq states. The ['a] type should be pure and marshallable by + the standard OCaml marshalling function. *) type 'a summary_declaration = { (** freeze_function [true] is for marshalling to disk. * e.g. lazy must be forced *) |