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<h1>Machine</h1>
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<p><a href="#">Machine</a> is an <a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>, translated from <a href="RSSA">RSSA</a>
by <a href="ToMachine">ToMachine</a> and used as input by the <a href="Codegen">Codegen</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="_description">Description</h2>
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<p><a href="#">Machine</a> is an <a href="Untyped">Untyped</a> <a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>, corresponding
to an abstract machine with an infinite number of temporaries.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/backend/machine.sig"><code>machine.sig</code></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/backend/machine.fun"><code>machine.fun</code></a></p>
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<p>The <a href="#">Machine</a> <a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a> has a primitive type checker
(<a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/backend/machine.sig"><code>machine.sig</code></a>,
<a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/backend/machine.fun"><code>machine.fun</code></a>), which only checks
some liveness properties.</p>
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<p>The runtime structure sets some constants according to the
configuration files on the target architecture and OS.</p>
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Last updated Thu Oct 21 15:53:06 2021 -0400 by Matthew Fluet.
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