Ppx_deriving runtime files

Learning
#1

I’ve been looking into writing ppx_deriving plugins and one thing that keeps popping up are these runtime files.

For example, ppx_deriving itself has src/ppx_deriving_runtime.ml[i] and ppx_deriving_yojson has src/ppx_deriving_yojson_runtime.ml[i].

What do these files do?

#2

Replying to my own question, but the runtime wraps around builtin types and modules. This way ppx_deriving is guaranteed to work over builtin types and modules instead of user defined types and values that shadow the builtins.