From: Eray Ozkural <exa@kablonet.com.tr>
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A grave bug in logical shift right op?
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 08:22:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311070822.22104.exa@kablonet.com.tr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031107125304T.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Excuse me for forgetting this fact about the ocaml int type.
Having been too accustomed to C/C++, I must have conditioned myself into
thinking int couldn't possibly be 31 bits. I swear I had learnt it sometime
in the past only to forget it :)
Thanks for the clarification.
On Friday 07 November 2003 05:53, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> Sure, the int type has only 31 bits. In good math,
> (2 ^ 31 - 1) quo 2 ^ 24 is 127, as far as I know.
>
> Note that the problem with your first example has already been
> discussed. A litteral bigger than the biggest possible integer should
> probably trigger an error/exception.
> A bit more curions is your second example: since
> 0xffffffff = 0x7fffffff = -1, converting it to int32 gives -1l (the
> 32-bit value for -1), which happens to be 0xffffffffl.
>
> If you want to do 32-bit computations, you must use only 32-bit
> integers. This shouldn't be too inefficient as long as you use loops
> rather than function calls (the same recommandations as for floats
> apply, I believe).
>
> Jacques Garrigue
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-07 3:34 Eray Ozkural
2003-11-07 3:46 ` [Caml-list] " Jed Davis
2003-11-07 3:53 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2003-11-07 6:22 ` Eray Ozkural [this message]
2003-11-07 3:58 ` Andrew Lenharth
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