From: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: "'OCaml List'" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] 2147483648l < 2147483647l
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:28:32 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00ff01ca9935$3539b050$9fad10f0$@romulus.metastack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ska2gelk.fsf@frosties.localdomain>
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "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.
Arithmetic operations are allowed to overflow silently but at no point do
you end up with an illegal constant which is the bug here.
i.e. Int32.add 2147483647l 1l correctly evaluates to -2147483648l but
-2147483648l is a valid int32. The evaluation of a constant by the compiler
in your ML source is supposed to follow the same rules as Int32.of_string
(which would raise an exception if given "-2147483648l") hence 2147483648l
which is not a valid int32 should be a "syntax" error.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-19 18:28 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
2010-01-19 18:28 ` David Allsopp [this message]
2010-01-19 19:15 ` Elnatan Reisner
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