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From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
To: skaller@ozemail.com.au
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Int overflow in literals
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:37:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1067791062.24541.2.camel@qrnik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1067786588.20731.19.camel@pelican>

W liście z nie, 02-11-2003, godz. 16:23, skaller pisze:

> I cannot give a specific example, but I can paint a general
> scenario: some data used with C is copied to ocaml (as text).
> 
> For example 0xFFFFFFFF is too large .. but in C it converts to -1
> which is not too large :-)

Given that OCaml ints are one bit smaller than in C, I think this is
more likely to mask an error than to be correct.

-- 
   __("<         Marcin Kowalczyk
   \__/       qrczak@knm.org.pl
    ^^     http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-11-02 16:37 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
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 [this message]

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