1Obj(3)                           OCaml library                          Obj(3)
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NAME

6       Obj - Operations on internal representations of values.
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Module

9       Module   Obj
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Documentation

12       Module Obj
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16       Operations on internal representations of values.
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18       Not for the casual user.
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67       Computes  the  total size (in words, including the headers) of all heap
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93       For  experts  only:  set_field et al can be made safe by first wrapping
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235       ===  The  following  two  functions  are deprecated. Use module Marshal
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256OCamldoc                          2018-07-14                            Obj(3)