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+(************************************************************************)
+(* v * The Coq Proof Assistant / The Coq Development Team *)
+(* <O___,, * CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique-INRIA Futurs-Universite Paris Sud *)
+(* \VV/ **************************************************************)
+(* // * The HELM Project / The EU MoWGLI Project *)
+(* * University of Bologna *)
+(************************************************************************)
+(* This file is distributed under the terms of the *)
+(* GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 *)
+(* *)
+(* Copyright (C) 2000-2004, HELM Team. *)
+(* http://helm.cs.unibo.it *)
+(************************************************************************)
+
+exception CanNotUnshare;;
+
+(* [unshare t] gives back a copy of t where all sharing has been removed *)
+(* Physical equality becomes meaningful on unshared terms. Hashtables that *)
+(* use physical equality can now be used to associate information to evey *)
+(* node of the term. *)
+let unshare ?(already_unshared = function _ -> false) t =
+ let obj = Obj.repr t in
+ let rec aux obj =
+ if already_unshared (Obj.obj obj) then
+ obj
+ else
+ (if Obj.is_int obj then
+ obj
+ else if Obj.is_block obj then
+ begin
+ let tag = Obj.tag obj in
+ if tag < Obj.no_scan_tag then
+ begin
+ let size = Obj.size obj in
+ let new_obj = Obj.new_block 0 size in
+ Obj.set_tag new_obj tag ;
+ for i = 0 to size - 1 do
+ Obj.set_field new_obj i (aux (Obj.field obj i))
+ done ;
+ new_obj
+ end
+ else if tag = Obj.string_tag then
+ obj
+ else
+ raise CanNotUnshare
+ end
+ else
+ raise CanNotUnshare
+ )
+ in
+ Obj.obj (aux obj)
+;;