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int_of_string bug

Yaron Minsky
- Oliver Bandel
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    - Florian Weimer
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        Andreas Rossberg
        
        skaller
- Brian Hurt
  - Yaron Minsky
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      - Erik de Castro Lopo
        
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        Markus Mottl
        
        Toby Kelsey
        
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Date:	2007-04-03 (17:51)
From:	Toby Kelsey <toby.kelsey@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] int_of_string bug

Markus Mottl wrote:

> The problem is just shifted to bigger numbers.  This problem arises
> with all integer conversion functions, i.e. Int64.of_string,
> Int32.of_string, Nativeint.of_string, int_of_string.
> 
> Regards
> Markus

This bug is not just a conversion problem:

# let x = 1073741824;;
val x : int = -1073741824
# (x < 0) && (x >= -x);;
- : bool = true

Toby