On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:54:33PM -0500, Brian Hurt wrote:
> I don't know what Java's calling convention is.  My advice:
> 
> >  Type     Bits
> >  -----    ----
> > byte    - 8
> > short   - 16
> > char    - 16
> > boolean - 8
> 
> The above I'd just promote to ints for Ocaml, and truncate as necessary.

We have a similar problem with the ocamldbi Dbi interface.  It maps
SQL int4 and serial types (ie. full 32 bit signed ints) to OCaml int.

The reason is convenience.  It's MUCH more convenient to deal with
OCaml int than boxed Int32.

However if anyone has a database with more than about 1 billion rows
in it, then they may find they have a problem ...

Rich.

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