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From: Edwin Young <edwiny@entropic.co.uk>
To: "'caml-list@inria.fr'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: 32 bit integers
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:47:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B1A05F46097FD211AD2300A0C9E6E8904E1B77@callisto.entropic.co.uk> (raw)


Hi,

several people have been requesting features to be included in a
forthcoming O'Caml/O'Labl merge, so I thought I'd add a humble plea for
some support for untagged (presumably boxed) integers. I'm looking
mostly at camlidl, the documentation for which says: "Since the Caml int
type has one bit of tag, the conversion from IDL types int and long
loses the most significant bit on 32-bit platforms". I don't think
that's terribly satisfactory. If there isn't going to be a 32-bit type,
can anyone suggest a workaround (eg can I convince camlidl to map all
ints to floats)?

Thanks,

--
Edwin Young




             reply	other threads:[~1999-10-18 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-18 14:47 Edwin Young [this message]
1999-10-21 14:24 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-10-21 19:17   ` Scott Alexander
1999-10-22  0:00   ` John Prevost
1999-10-22  9:42     ` Xavier Leroy
1999-10-21 18:13 Manuel Fahndrich
1999-10-29 21:28 Juergen Pfitzenmaier

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