NAME¶
ocamlrun - The OCaml bytecode interpreter
SYNOPSIS¶
ocamlrun [
options ]
filename argument ...
DESCRIPTION¶
The
ocamlrun(1) command executes bytecode files produced by the linking
phase of the
ocamlc(1) command.
The first non-option argument is taken to be the name of the file containing the
executable bytecode. (That file is searched in the executable path as well as
in the current directory.) The remaining arguments are passed to the OCaml
program, in the string array
Sys.argv. Element 0 of this array is the
name of the bytecode executable file; elements 1 to
n are the remaining
arguments.
In most cases, the bytecode executable files produced by the
ocamlc(1)
command are self-executable, and manage to launch the
ocamlrun(1)
command on themselves automatically.
OPTIONS¶
The following command-line options are recognized by
ocamlrun(1).
- -b
- When the program aborts due to an uncaught exception, print a detailed
"back trace" of the execution, showing where the exception was
raised and which function calls were outstanding at this point. The back
trace is printed only if the bytecode executable contains debugging
information, i.e. was compiled and linked with the -g option to
ocamlc(1) set. This option is equivalent to setting the b
flag in the OCAMLRUNPARAM environment variable (see below).
- -I dir
- Search the directory dir for dynamically-loaded libraries, in
addition to the standard search path.
- -p
- Print the names of the primitives known to this version of
ocamlrun(1) and exit.
- -v
- Direct the memory manager to print verbose messages on standard error.
This is equivalent to setting v=63 in the OCAMLRUNPARAM environment
variable (see below).
- -version
- Print version string and exit.
- -vnum
- Print short version number and exit.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
The following environment variable are also consulted:
- CAML_LD_LIBRARY_PATH
- Additional directories to search for dynamically-loaded libraries.
- OCAMLLIB
- The directory containing the OCaml standard library. (If OCAMLLIB
is not set, CAMLLIB will be used instead.) Used to locate the
ld.conf configuration file for dynamic loading. If not set, default to the
library directory specified when compiling OCaml.
- OCAMLRUNPARAM
- Set the runtime system options and garbage collection parameters. (If
OCAMLRUNPARAM is not set, CAMLRUNPARAM will be used instead.) This
variable must be a sequence of parameter specifications. A parameter
specification is an option letter followed by an = sign, a decimal number
(or a hexadecimal number prefixed by 0x), and an optional
multiplier. The options are documented below; the last six correspond to
the fields of the control record documented in The OCaml user's
manual, chapter "Standard Library", section
"Gc".
- b
- Trigger the printing of a stack backtrace when an uncaught exception
aborts the program. This option takes no argument.
- p
- Turn on debugging support for ocamlyacc-generated parsers. When
this option is on, the pushdown automaton that executes the parsers prints
a trace of its actions. This option takes no argument.
- R
- Turn on randomization of all hash tables by default (see the
Hashtbl module of the standard library). This option takes no
argument.
- h
- The initial size of the major heap (in words).
- a (allocation_policy)
- The policy used for allocating in the OCaml heap. Possible values are 0
for the next-fit policy, and 1 for the first-fit policy. Next-fit is
usually faster, but first-fit is better for avoiding fragmentation and the
associated heap compactions.
- s (minor_heap_size)
- The size of the minor heap (in words).
- i (major_heap_increment)
- The default size increment for the major heap (in words).
- o (space_overhead)
- The major GC speed setting.
- O (max_overhead)
- The heap compaction trigger setting.
- l (stack_limit)
- The limit (in words) of the stack size.
- v (verbose)
- What GC messages to print to stderr. This is a sum of values selected from
the following:
0x001 Start of major GC cycle.
0x002 Minor collection and major GC slice.
0x004 Growing and shrinking of the heap.
0x008 Resizing of stacks and memory manager tables.
0x010 Heap compaction.
0x020 Change of GC parameters.
0x040 Computation of major GC slice size.
0x080 Calling of finalisation functions.
0x100 Startup messages (loading the bytecode executable file,
resolving shared libraries).
The multiplier is k, M, or G, for multiplication
by 2^10, 2^20, and 2^30 respectively. For example, on a 32-bit machine
under bash, the command export OCAMLRUNPARAM='s=256k,v=1' tells a
subsequent ocamlrun to set its initial minor heap size to 1
megabyte and to print a message at the start of each major GC cycle.
- CAMLRUNPARAM
- If OCAMLRUNPARAM is not found in the environment, then CAMLRUNPARAM will
be used instead. If CAMLRUNPARAM is not found, then the default values
will be used.
- PATH
- List of directories searched to find the bytecode executable file.
SEE ALSO¶
ocamlc(1).
The OCaml user's manual, chapter "Runtime system".