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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