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OCaml 5 native 32-bit backends: i386 and PPC32

Following on from the Arm32 multicore backend, I have now ported the remaining two 32-bit architectures to OCaml 5 with multicore support: i386 and PowerPC 32-bit (PPC32).

03 Mar 2026

Marc Elvers

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OCaml 5.4 native Arm32 branch

Recently, I have been using my Pi Zero (armv6), which has reminded me that OCaml 5 dropped native 32-bit support, and I wondered what it would take to reinstate it.

27 Nov 2025

Marc Elvers

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A first foray into agentic coding

I’ve been largely steering clear of the AI bandwagon up to now, mainly because the last thing I needed while working on Relocatable OCaml was to be trying to learn a new tool at the same time as finishing something which felt desperately late and which, at times, I myself didn’t fully understand! However, as the buzz of the announcement dies down, I had a first go at pointing Claude Code to the OCaml compiler codebase, and thought I’d add to the general noise of AI memoirs…

17 Sep 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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How to write a library for BuckleScript and Native

This blog post is an introduction on how to setup a library available for both BuckleScript and OCaml, sharing as much code as possible.

22 Oct 2019

Ahrefs

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Code layout of Fan (a metaprogramming tool for OCaml)

Fan is a metaprogramming tool for OCaml. I believe it would be an invaluable tool for the community when it’s production ready. If you are attracted by the power of Camlp4 while frustrated wi…

16 Sep 2013

Hong bo Zhang

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