* [Caml-list] int marshalling
@ 2002-01-16 0:35 Ian Zimmerman
2002-01-16 16:08 ` Xavier Leroy
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From: Ian Zimmerman @ 2002-01-16 0:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: OCAML
How does marshalling of type int work, it being of different widths on
64-bit machines? That is, if a 64-bit int value larger than 2^31 is
marshalled on a 64-bit system, what happens if a 32-bit system tries
to unmarshall it?
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* Re: [Caml-list] int marshalling
2002-01-16 0:35 [Caml-list] int marshalling Ian Zimmerman
@ 2002-01-16 16:08 ` Xavier Leroy
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From: Xavier Leroy @ 2002-01-16 16:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ian Zimmerman; +Cc: caml-list
> How does marshalling of type int work, it being of different widths on
> 64-bit machines? That is, if a 64-bit int value larger than 2^31 is
> marshalled on a 64-bit system, what happens if a 32-bit system tries
> to unmarshall it?
You get a run-time exception Failure "input_value: integer too large".
- Xavier Leroy
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