From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: "OCaml List" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 2147483648l < 2147483647l
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:59:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ska2gelk.fsf@frosties.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101ca8e0a$aa006450$fe012cf0$@romulus.metastack.com> (David Allsopp's message of "Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:26:16 -0000")
"David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com> writes:
> Matej Kosik wrote:
>> I am sorry, I have a stupid question.
>> I would like to ask if this:
>>
>> # 2147483648l < 2147483647l;;
>> - : bool = true
>
> The bug is in fact:
>
> # 2147483648l;;
> - : int32 = -2147483648l
>
> and given that behaviour, the above result makes sense! But...
Isn't that documented properly? I think in the docs I saw at least
that ocaml will silently overflow ints.
But yeah, the parser/compiler should really warn when that happens.
MfG
Goswin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-19 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-05 12:59 Matej Kosik
2010-01-05 13:17 ` [Caml-list] " Olivier Andrieu
2010-01-05 13:26 ` David Allsopp
2010-01-19 17:59 ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
2010-01-19 18:28 ` David Allsopp
2010-01-19 19:15 ` Elnatan Reisner
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