From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
To: Mathias Kende <mathias@kende.fr>
Cc: OCaml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] int overflow and Marshal failure
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:03:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D849F2.4050403@janestcapital.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188577819.7084.21.camel@MATHIAS-ENS>
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Mathias Kende wrote:
>Le jeudi 30 août 2007 à 23:47 +0200, Markus E L a écrit :
>
>
>>A check in the Unix library would be nice, in the long run I think
>>using 32bit native integers is absolutely required.
>>
>>
>
>I had the same sort of problem with the Unix.stat function and the
>st_size member being an int while it is a 64 bits int on recent systems
>(including some 32 bits one). The maximum size that can be stored on 32
>bits system, 1Go, is much too small for this function.
>
>
As a side note, this is why I think the x86 should have gone 64-bit a
decade ago now (and was saying that then).
Apparently, 2G should be enought for anyone.
Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 21:47 Unix.getuid() int overflow Markus E L
2007-08-30 22:57 ` [Caml-list] " Markus E L
2007-08-31 16:30 ` [Caml-list] int overflow and Marshal failure Mathias Kende
2007-08-31 16:47 ` Eric Cooper
2007-08-31 16:49 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-08-31 17:03 ` Brian Hurt [this message]
2007-08-31 18:25 ` Matthieu Dubuget
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