# The OCaml system, release 4.08

The OCaml system
release 4.08
Documentation and user’s manual
Xavier Leroy,
Damien Doligez, Alain Frisch, Jacques Garrigue, Didier Rémy and Jérôme Vouillon
August 6, 2019
Copyright © 2013 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique

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- Contents
- Foreword

# Part I
An introduction to OCaml

- Chapter 1 The core language
- Chapter 2 The module system
- Chapter 3 Objects in OCaml
- Chapter 4 Labels and variants
- Chapter 5 Polymorphism and its limitations
- Chapter 6 Advanced examples with classes and modules

# Part II
The OCaml language

- Chapter 7 The OCaml language
- Chapter 8 Language extensions

# Part III
The OCaml tools

- Chapter 9 Batch compilation (ocamlc)
- Chapter 10 The toplevel system or REPL (ocaml)
- Chapter 11 The runtime system (ocamlrun)
- Chapter 12 Native-code compilation (ocamlopt)
- Chapter 13 Lexer and parser generators (ocamllex, ocamlyacc)
- Chapter 14 Dependency generator (ocamldep)
- Chapter 15 The browser/editor (ocamlbrowser)
- Chapter 16 The documentation generator (ocamldoc)
- Chapter 17 The debugger (ocamldebug)
- Chapter 18 Profiling (ocamlprof)
- Chapter 19 The ocamlbuild compilation manager
- Chapter 20 Interfacing C with OCaml
- Chapter 21 Optimisation with Flambda
- Chapter 22 Memory profiling with Spacetime
- Chapter 23 Fuzzing with afl-fuzz
- Chapter 24 Compiler plugins

# Part IV
The OCaml library

- Chapter 25 The core library
- Chapter 26 The standard library
- Chapter 27 The compiler front-end
- Chapter 28 The unix library: Unix system calls
- Chapter 29 The num library: arbitrary-precision rational arithmetic
- Chapter 30 The str library: regular expressions and string processing
- Chapter 31 The threads library
- Chapter 32 The graphics library
- Chapter 33 The dynlink library: dynamic loading and linking of object files
- Chapter 34 The bigarray library

# Part V
Appendix

- Index of modules
- Index of module types
- Index of types
- Index of exceptions
- Index of values

- Index of keywords

> This document was translated from LATEX by HEVEA .