On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:13:32PM -0400, John Carr wrote:
> 
> > If your problem is only the factorial function, then you can 
> > calculate statically (i.e. at source-code writing time) the 
> > value of the maximum integer whose factorial will fit in 
> > O'Caml's representation of integers, and test against that, 
> > once and for all, before entering the recursive calculation.
> 
> OCaml supports 32 and 64 bit integers.  Is it possible to detect at
> compile time the size of the maximum integer?

val max_int : int

   The greatest representable integer.

Says the doc.

BTW, i compile the sparc debian package on a sparc64 box which
advertizes as a sparc box. Will i get access to the 64 bit integers in
this case or not ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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