Any BEAM docs?

[Richard Carlsson]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Robert Feldt wrote:

> Is there any overview description of BEAM? Or at least some hints on
> the structure of the BEAM source code?

Note that there is a difference between the external BEAM transport
format (the code in *.beam files) and the internal instruction set used
by the BEAM emulator (see the file beam_emu.c). The loader - a very
complicated beast - rewrites the code to the internal form

The external format used to be described by a document on Björn
Gustavsson's page, but that link seems to be dead now. (Björn?)

Studying the file lib/compiler/src/beam_disasm.erl might help.

To understand the internal instruction set, beam_emu.c is your
only source, I think.

	/Richard



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