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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:28:15 +0200
From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>, Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Runtime overflow and what to do
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> OCaml supports 32 and 64 bit integers.  Is it possible to detect at
> compile time the size of the maximum integer?

What about:

        echo "print_int Sys.word_size" > /tmp/caml$$
        WORDSIZE=`ocaml /tmp/caml$$`
        rm -f /tmp/caml$$

WORDSIZE will be set to 32 or 64, depending on the platform.

- Xavier Leroy
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