From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Int overflow in literals
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 10:23:07 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311021021130.27942-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1067785547.20731.3.camel@pelican>
On 3 Nov 2003, skaller wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 08:14, Oleg Trott wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 October 2003 03:05 pm, Issac Trotts wrote:
>
> >
> > Or, better yet, use Big_int:
>
> Felix does that, and i'm very happy with the idea.
> Constant folding is done in "infinite" precision.
> The check for size, if done, would occur in the backend
> code generator .. not the parser.
>
This is a bad idea. I'd like the constant folding to be done in the word
length that the code will be executed in- this way, there is no difference
between code that is executed at run time and code that is executed at
compile time.
Now, being able to have bignum constants...
Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-02 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-30 13:53 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2003-10-30 17:37 ` Alex Baretta
2003-10-30 17:59 ` Frederic van der Plancke
2003-10-30 19:20 ` Oleg Trott
2003-10-30 19:40 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2003-10-30 20:05 ` Issac Trotts
2003-10-30 21:14 ` Oleg Trott
2003-10-30 21:26 ` Kenneth Knowles
2003-10-31 0:18 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-10-31 2:05 ` Kenneth Knowles
2003-11-02 15:05 ` skaller
2003-11-02 16:23 ` Brian Hurt [this message]
2003-11-02 16:39 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2003-11-07 7:22 ` skaller
2003-10-30 21:36 ` Frederic van der Plancke
2003-10-30 23:27 ` Issac Trotts
2003-10-30 23:43 ` Oleg Trott
2003-10-31 16:42 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-10-31 17:39 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2003-10-31 17:50 ` Oleg Trott
2003-11-02 15:23 ` skaller
2003-11-02 16:37 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
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