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[Caml-list] Int overflow in literals

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
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        Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
        
        skaller
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        Kenneth Knowles
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  - Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@k...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Int overflow in literals

W li¶cie z nie, 02-11-2003, godz. 16:23, skaller pisze:

> I cannot give a specific example, but I can paint a general
> scenario: some data used with C is copied to ocaml (as text).
> 
> For example 0xFFFFFFFF is too large .. but in C it converts to -1
> which is not too large :-)

Given that OCaml ints are one bit smaller than in C, I think this is
more likely to mask an error than to be correct.

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