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<h1>ImplementSuffix</h1>
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<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="ImplementSuffix">ImplementSuffix</a> is a pass for the <a href="SXML">SXML</a>
<a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>, invoked from <a href="SXMLSimplify">SXMLSimplify</a>.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_description">Description</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>This pass implements the <span class="monospaced">TopLevel_setSuffix</span> primitive, which
installs a function to exit the program.</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/xml/implement-suffix.fun"><span class="monospaced">implement-suffix.fun</span></a>
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<h2 id="_details_and_notes">Details and Notes</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="ImplementSuffix">ImplementSuffix</a> works by introducing a new <span class="monospaced">ref</span> cell to contain
the function of type <span class="monospaced">unit -&gt; unit</span> that should be called on program
exit.</p></div>
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The following code (appropriately alpha-converted) is appended to the beginning of the <a href="SXML">SXML</a> program:
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<div class="content"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kr">val</span> <span class="nv">z_0</span> <span class="p">=</span>
  <span class="kr">fn</span> <span class="n">a_0</span> <span class="p">=&gt;</span>
  <span class="kr">let</span>
    <span class="kr">val</span> <span class="nv">x_0</span> <span class="p">=</span>
      <span class="s2">&quot;toplevel suffix not installed&quot;</span>
    <span class="kr">val</span> <span class="nv">x_1</span> <span class="p">=</span>
      <span class="n">MLton_bug</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x_0</span><span class="p">)</span>
  <span class="kr">in</span>
    <span class="n">x_1</span>
  <span class="kr">end</span>
<span class="kr">val</span> <span class="nv">topLevelSuffixCell</span> <span class="p">=</span>
  <span class="n">Ref_ref</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">z_0</span><span class="p">)</span>
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Any occurrence of
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<div class="content"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kr">val</span> <span class="nv">x_0</span> <span class="p">=</span>
  <span class="n">TopLevel_setSuffix</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f_0</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>is rewritten to</p></div>
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<div class="content"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kr">val</span> <span class="nv">x_0</span> <span class="p">=</span>
  <span class="n">Ref_assign</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">topLevelSuffixCell</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">f_0</span><span class="p">)</span>
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The following code (appropriately alpha-converted) is appended to the end of the <a href="SXML">SXML</a> program:
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<div class="content"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kr">val</span> <span class="nv">f_0</span> <span class="p">=</span>
  <span class="n">Ref_deref</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">topLevelSuffixCell</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="kr">val</span> <span class="nv">z_0</span> <span class="p">=</span>
  <span class="p">()</span>
<span class="kr">val</span> <span class="nv">x_0</span> <span class="p">=</span>
  <span class="n">f_0</span> <span class="n">z_0</span>
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