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commit 905cbb6a3ebf1edc11745737feeedd36708149a7
Author: KC Sivaramakrishnan <sk826@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date:   Wed Mar 23 10:11:46 2016 +0000

    Spacing edits

diff --git a/src/batGc.mli b/src/batGc.mli
index ecffb79..494b9b1 100644
--- a/src/batGc.mli
+++ b/src/batGc.mli
@@ -34,18 +34,18 @@
 type stat = Gc.stat =
   { minor_words : float;
     (** Number of words allocated in the minor heap since
-       the program was started.  This number is accurate in
-       byte-code programs, but only an approximation in programs
-       compiled to native code. *)
+        the program was started.  This number is accurate in
+        byte-code programs, but only an approximation in programs
+        compiled to native code. *)
 
     promoted_words : float;
     (** Number of words allocated in the minor heap that
-       survived a minor collection and were moved to the major heap
-       since the program was started. *)
+        survived a minor collection and were moved to the major heap
+        since the program was started. *)
 
     major_words : float;
     (** Number of words allocated in the major heap, including
-       the promoted words, since the program was started. *)
+        the promoted words, since the program was started. *)
 
     minor_collections : int;
     (** Number of minor collections since the program was started. *)
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ type stat = Gc.stat =
 
     live_words : int;
     (** Number of words of live data in the major heap, including the header
-       words. *)
+        words. *)
 
     live_blocks : int;
     (** Number of live blocks in the major heap. *)
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ type stat = Gc.stat =
 
     fragments : int;
     (** Number of wasted words due to fragmentation.  These are
-       1-words free blocks placed between two live blocks.  They
-       are not available for allocation. *)
+        1-words free blocks placed between two live blocks.  They
+        are not available for allocation. *)
 
     compactions : int;
     (** Number of heap compactions since the program was started. *)
@@ -92,16 +92,16 @@ type stat = Gc.stat =
 }
 (** The memory management counters are returned in a [stat] record.
 
-   The total amount of memory allocated by the program since it was started
-   is (in words) [minor_words + major_words - promoted_words].  Multiply by
-   the word size (4 on a 32-bit machine, 8 on a 64-bit machine) to get
-   the number of bytes.
+    The total amount of memory allocated by the program since it was started
+    is (in words) [minor_words + major_words - promoted_words].  Multiply by
+    the word size (4 on a 32-bit machine, 8 on a 64-bit machine) to get
+    the number of bytes.
 *)
 
 type control = Gc.control =
   { mutable minor_heap_size : int;
     (** The size (in words) of the minor heap.  Changing
-       this parameter will trigger a minor collection.  Default: 256k. *)
+        this parameter will trigger a minor collection.  Default: 256k. *)
 
     mutable major_heap_increment : int;
     (** How much to add to the major heap when increasing it. If this
@@ -112,45 +112,45 @@ type control = Gc.control =
 
     mutable space_overhead : int;
     (** The major GC speed is computed from this parameter.
-       This is the memory that will be "wasted" because the GC does not
-       immediatly collect unreachable blocks.  It is expressed as a
-       percentage of the memory used for live data.
-       The GC will work more (use more CPU time and collect
-       blocks more eagerly) if [space_overhead] is smaller.
-       Default: 80. *)
+        This is the memory that will be "wasted" because the GC does not
+        immediatly collect unreachable blocks.  It is expressed as a
+        percentage of the memory used for live data.
+        The GC will work more (use more CPU time and collect
+        blocks more eagerly) if [space_overhead] is smaller.
+        Default: 80. *)
 
     mutable verbose : int;
     (** This value controls the GC messages on standard error output.
-       It is a sum of some of the following flags, to print messages
-       on the corresponding events:
-       - [0x001] Start of major GC cycle.
-       - [0x002] Minor collection and major GC slice.
-       - [0x004] Growing and shrinking of the heap.
-       - [0x008] Resizing of stacks and memory manager tables.
-       - [0x010] Heap compaction.
-       - [0x020] Change of GC parameters.
-       - [0x040] Computation of major GC slice size.
-       - [0x080] Calling of finalisation functions.
-       - [0x100] Bytecode executable and shared library search at start-up.
-       - [0x200] Computation of compaction-triggering condition.
-       - [0x400] Output GC statistics at program exit.
-       Default: 0. *)
+        It is a sum of some of the following flags, to print messages
+        on the corresponding events:
+        - [0x001] Start of major GC cycle.
+        - [0x002] Minor collection and major GC slice.
+        - [0x004] Growing and shrinking of the heap.
+        - [0x008] Resizing of stacks and memory manager tables.
+        - [0x010] Heap compaction.
+        - [0x020] Change of GC parameters.
+        - [0x040] Computation of major GC slice size.
+        - [0x080] Calling of finalisation functions.
+        - [0x100] Bytecode executable and shared library search at start-up.
+        - [0x200] Computation of compaction-triggering condition.
+        - [0x400] Output GC statistics at program exit.
+        Default: 0. *)
 
     mutable max_overhead : int;
     (** Heap compaction is triggered when the estimated amount
-       of "wasted" memory is more than [max_overhead] percent of the
-       amount of live data.  If [max_overhead] is set to 0, heap
-       compaction is triggered at the end of each major GC cycle
-       (this setting is intended for testing purposes only).
-       If [max_overhead >= 1000000], compaction is never triggered.
-       If compaction is permanently disabled, it is strongly suggested
-       to set [allocation_policy] to 1.
-       Default: 500. *)
+        of "wasted" memory is more than [max_overhead] percent of the
+        amount of live data.  If [max_overhead] is set to 0, heap
+        compaction is triggered at the end of each major GC cycle
+        (this setting is intended for testing purposes only).
+        If [max_overhead >= 1000000], compaction is never triggered.
+        If compaction is permanently disabled, it is strongly suggested
+        to set [allocation_policy] to 1.
+        Default: 500. *)
 
     mutable stack_limit : int;
     (** The maximum size of the stack (in words).  This is only
-       relevant to the byte-code runtime, as the native code runtime
-       uses the operating system's stack.  Default: 1024k. *)
+        relevant to the byte-code runtime, as the native code runtime
+        uses the operating system's stack.  Default: 1024k. *)
 
     mutable allocation_policy : int;
     (** The policy used for allocating in the heap.  Possible
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ type control = Gc.control =
 
 external stat : unit -> stat = "caml_gc_stat"
 (** Return the current values of the memory management counters in a
-   [stat] record.  This function examines every heap block to get the
-   statistics. *)
+    [stat] record.  This function examines every heap block to get the
+    statistics. *)
 
 external quick_stat : unit -> stat = "caml_gc_quick_stat"
 (** Same as [stat] except that [live_words], [live_blocks], [free_words],
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ external get : unit -> control = "caml_gc_get"
 
 external set : control -> unit = "caml_gc_set"
 (** [set r] changes the GC parameters according to the [control] record [r].
-   The normal usage is: [Gc.set { (Gc.get()) with Gc.verbose = 0x00d }] *)
+    The normal usage is: [Gc.set { (Gc.get()) with Gc.verbose = 0x00d }] *)
 
 external minor : unit -> unit = "caml_gc_minor"
 (** Trigger a minor collection. *)
@@ -210,21 +210,21 @@ external major : unit -> unit = "caml_gc_major"
 
 external full_major : unit -> unit = "caml_gc_full_major"
 (** Do a minor collection, finish the current major collection cycle,
-   and perform a complete new cycle.  This will collect all currently
-   unreachable blocks. *)
+    and perform a complete new cycle.  This will collect all currently
+    unreachable blocks. *)
 
 external compact : unit -> unit = "caml_gc_compaction"
 (** Perform a full major collection and compact the heap.  Note that heap
-   compaction is a lengthy operation. *)
+    compaction is a lengthy operation. *)
 
 val print_stat : _ BatInnerIO.output -> unit
 (** Print the current values of the memory management counters (in
-   human-readable form) into the channel argument. *)
+    human-readable form) into the channel argument. *)
 
 val allocated_bytes : unit -> float
 (** Return the total number of bytes allocated since the program was
-   started.  It is returned as a [float] to avoid overflow problems
-   with [int] on 32-bit machines. *)
+    started.  It is returned as a [float] to avoid overflow problems
+    with [int] on 32-bit machines. *)
 
 external get_minor_free : unit -> int = "caml_get_minor_free" [@@noalloc]
 (** Return the current size of the free space inside the minor heap. *)
@@ -247,63 +247,63 @@ external huge_fallback_count : unit -> int = "caml_gc_huge_fallback_count"
 
 val finalise : ('a -> unit) -> 'a -> unit
 (** [finalise f v] registers [f] as a finalisation function for [v].
-   [v] must be heap-allocated.  [f] will be called with [v] as
-   argument at some point between the first time [v] becomes unreachable
-   (including through weak pointers) and the time [v] is collected by
-   the GC. Several functions can
-   be registered for the same value, or even several instances of the
-   same function.  Each instance will be called once (or never,
-   if the program terminates before [v] becomes unreachable).
-
-   The GC will call the finalisation functions in the order of
-   deallocation.  When several values become unreachable at the
-   same time (i.e. during the same GC cycle), the finalisation
-   functions will be called in the reverse order of the corresponding
-   calls to [finalise].  If [finalise] is called in the same order
-   as the values are allocated, that means each value is finalised
-   before the values it depends upon.  Of course, this becomes
-   false if additional dependencies are introduced by assignments.
-
-   In the presence of multiple OCaml threads it should be assumed that
-   any particular finaliser may be executed in any of the threads.
-
-   Anything reachable from the closure of finalisation functions
-   is considered reachable, so the following code will not work
-   as expected:
-   - [ let v = ... in Gc.finalise (fun _ -> ...v...) v ]
-
-   Instead you should make sure that [v] is not in the closure of
-   the finalisation function by writing:
-   - [ let f = fun x -> ... ;; let v = ... in Gc.finalise f v ]
-
-
-   The [f] function can use all features of OCaml, including
-   assignments that make the value reachable again.  It can also
-   loop forever (in this case, the other
-   finalisation functions will not be called during the execution of f,
-   unless it calls [finalise_release]).
-   It can call [finalise] on [v] or other values to register other
-   functions or even itself.  It can raise an exception; in this case
-   the exception will interrupt whatever the program was doing when
-   the function was called.
-
-
-   [finalise] will raise [Invalid_argument] if [v] is not
-   guaranteed to be heap-allocated.  Some examples of values that are not
-   heap-allocated are integers, constant constructors, booleans,
-   the empty array, the empty list, the unit value.  The exact list
-   of what is heap-allocated or not is implementation-dependent.
-   Some constant values can be heap-allocated but never deallocated
-   during the lifetime of the program, for example a list of integer
-   constants; this is also implementation-dependent.
-   Note that values of types [float] and ['a lazy] (for any ['a]) are
-   sometimes allocated and sometimes not, so finalising them is unsafe,
-   and [finalise] will also raise [Invalid_argument] for them.
-
-
-   The results of calling {!String.make}, {!Bytes.make}, {!Bytes.create},
-   {!Array.make}, and {!Pervasives.ref} are guaranteed to be
-   heap-allocated and non-constant except when the length argument is [0].
+    [v] must be heap-allocated.  [f] will be called with [v] as
+    argument at some point between the first time [v] becomes unreachable
+    (including through weak pointers) and the time [v] is collected by
+    the GC. Several functions can
+    be registered for the same value, or even several instances of the
+    same function.  Each instance will be called once (or never,
+    if the program terminates before [v] becomes unreachable).
+
+    The GC will call the finalisation functions in the order of
+    deallocation.  When several values become unreachable at the
+    same time (i.e. during the same GC cycle), the finalisation
+    functions will be called in the reverse order of the corresponding
+    calls to [finalise].  If [finalise] is called in the same order
+    as the values are allocated, that means each value is finalised
+    before the values it depends upon.  Of course, this becomes
+    false if additional dependencies are introduced by assignments.
+
+    In the presence of multiple OCaml threads it should be assumed that
+    any particular finaliser may be executed in any of the threads.
+
+    Anything reachable from the closure of finalisation functions
+    is considered reachable, so the following code will not work
+    as expected:
+    - [ let v = ... in Gc.finalise (fun _ -> ...v...) v ]
+
+    Instead you should make sure that [v] is not in the closure of
+    the finalisation function by writing:
+    - [ let f = fun x -> ... ;; let v = ... in Gc.finalise f v ]
+
+
+    The [f] function can use all features of OCaml, including
+    assignments that make the value reachable again.  It can also
+    loop forever (in this case, the other
+    finalisation functions will not be called during the execution of f,
+    unless it calls [finalise_release]).
+    It can call [finalise] on [v] or other values to register other
+    functions or even itself.  It can raise an exception; in this case
+    the exception will interrupt whatever the program was doing when
+    the function was called.
+
+
+    [finalise] will raise [Invalid_argument] if [v] is not
+    guaranteed to be heap-allocated.  Some examples of values that are not
+    heap-allocated are integers, constant constructors, booleans,
+    the empty array, the empty list, the unit value.  The exact list
+    of what is heap-allocated or not is implementation-dependent.
+    Some constant values can be heap-allocated but never deallocated
+    during the lifetime of the program, for example a list of integer
+    constants; this is also implementation-dependent.
+    Note that values of types [float] and ['a lazy] (for any ['a]) are
+    sometimes allocated and sometimes not, so finalising them is unsafe,
+    and [finalise] will also raise [Invalid_argument] for them.
+
+
+    The results of calling {!String.make}, {!Bytes.make}, {!Bytes.create},
+    {!Array.make}, and {!Pervasives.ref} are guaranteed to be
+    heap-allocated and non-constant except when the length argument is [0].
 *)
 
 val finalise_release : unit -> unit
@@ -313,15 +313,15 @@ val finalise_release : unit -> unit
 
 type alarm = Gc.alarm
 (** An alarm is a piece of data that calls a user function at the end of
-   each major GC cycle.  The following functions are provided to create
-   and delete alarms. *)
+    each major GC cycle.  The following functions are provided to create
+    and delete alarms. *)
 
 val create_alarm : (unit -> unit) -> alarm
 (** [create_alarm f] will arrange for [f] to be called at the end of each
-   major GC cycle, starting with the current cycle or the next one.
-   A value of type [alarm] is returned that you can
-   use to call [delete_alarm]. *)
+    major GC cycle, starting with the current cycle or the next one.
+    A value of type [alarm] is returned that you can
+    use to call [delete_alarm]. *)
 
 val delete_alarm : alarm -> unit
 (** [delete_alarm a] will stop the calls to the function associated
-   to [a].  Calling [delete_alarm a] again has no effect. *)
+    to [a].  Calling [delete_alarm a] again has no effect. *)