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<h1>Machine</h1>
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<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="Machine">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></div>
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<h2 id="_description">Description</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="Machine">Machine</a> is an <a href="Untyped">Untyped</a> <a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>, corresponding
to a abstract register machine.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_implementation">Implementation</h2>
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<a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/backend/machine.sig"><span class="monospaced">machine.sig</span></a>
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<a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/backend/machine.fun"><span class="monospaced">machine.fun</span></a>
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<h2 id="_type_checking">Type Checking</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The <a href="Machine">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"><span class="monospaced">machine.sig</span></a>,
<a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/backend/machine.fun"><span class="monospaced">machine.fun</span></a>), which only checks
some liveness properties.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_details_and_notes">Details and Notes</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The runtime structure sets some constants according to the
configuration files on the target architecture and OS.</p></div>
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