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From: Olivier Andrieu <oandrieu@nerim.net>
To: Matej Kosik <kosik@fiit.stuba.sk>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 2147483648l < 2147483647l
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:17:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <95513601001050517g5f65322au4e0bcce7374734eb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4337A0.8000603@fiit.stuba.sk>

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 13:59, Matej Kosik <kosik@fiit.stuba.sk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am sorry, I have a stupid question.
> I would like to ask if this:
>
>        # 2147483648l < 2147483647l;;
>        - : bool = true
>
> should not regarded as a bug. In my project I need Int32 value and above
> behavior surprised me. Value
>
>        2147483648l
>
> should not be allowed at all because it cannot be encoded to 32-bit
> signed integer encoded with 2's complement representation.
>
> Thanks in advance for help.

yes that's a "misfeature" of the lexer/parser. The point is that it
accepts -2147483648l (representable as an int32) ; the downside is
that it accepts 2147483648l and treats it as -1l.

Cf. this bug report: http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4210 .

-- 
  Olivier


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05 13:17 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 ` Olivier Andrieu [this message]
2010-01-05 13:26 ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2010-01-19 17:59   ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-01-19 18:28     ` David Allsopp
2010-01-19 19:15       ` Elnatan Reisner

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