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From: John Prevost <j.prevost@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>, Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>,
	Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Runtime overflow and what to do
Date: 12 Oct 2002 13:12:23 -0400 (71.693 UMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861y6vtwco.fsf@laurelin.dementia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021012165831.GA4700@iliana>

>>>>> "sl" == Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

    sl> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:13:32PM -0400, John Carr wrote:

    >> OCaml supports 32 and 64 bit integers.  Is it possible to
    >> detect at compile time the size of the maximum integer?

    sl> val max_int : int

    sl>    The greatest representable integer.

But that's at runtime.  Which, actually, is the best you can
do--bytecode compiled things might run on any architecture.  Native
compiled things you can rely on more.  But if you want to compile this
knowledge in, you'll have to have some configure script that
determines the word size and chooses which version to compile.

John.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-12 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-10 15:01 Scott J,
2002-10-10 15:07 ` Maxence Guesdon
2002-10-10 15:11 ` Maxence Guesdon
2002-10-10 15:21 ` Luc Maranget
2002-10-10 18:13   ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-10 18:57     ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-10 22:17       ` Scott J,
2002-10-11  8:00         ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-11 10:16         ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-12 16:13           ` John Carr
2002-10-12 16:58             ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-12 17:12               ` John Prevost [this message]
2002-10-13  9:31               ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13  9:52                 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-13  9:57                   ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13 10:15                     ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-13 13:25                   ` John Carr
2002-10-13  9:28             ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-14  0:56               ` Chris Hecker
2002-10-14  9:46                 ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-10-14 11:02                   ` Scott J,
2002-10-14 14:05                   ` Tim Freeman
2002-10-14 15:32                     ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-14 16:12                       ` Alain Frisch
2002-10-14 16:49                   ` [Caml-list] new ocaml switches (was Re: Runtime overflow and what to do) Chris Hecker
2002-10-13  9:25         ` [Caml-list] Runtime overflow and what to do Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13 10:04           ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-13 10:29             ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-13 10:47               ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-13 12:38                 ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-13 16:14               ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13 17:06                 ` Michel Quercia
2002-10-15 19:15                 ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-15 19:25                   ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-16  8:24                     ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-13 10:19           ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-11  8:02       ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-11  6:42 ` Florian Hars

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