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Date: | 2007-08-31 (17:03) |
From: | Brian Hurt <bhurt@j...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] int overflow and Marshal failure |
Mathias Kende wrote: >Le jeudi 30 août 2007 à 23:47 +0200, Markus E L a écrit : > > >>A check in the Unix library would be nice, in the long run I think >>using 32bit native integers is absolutely required. >> >> > >I had the same sort of problem with the Unix.stat function and the >st_size member being an int while it is a 64 bits int on recent systems >(including some 32 bits one). The maximum size that can be stored on 32 >bits system, 1Go, is much too small for this function. > > As a side note, this is why I think the x86 should have gone 64-bit a decade ago now (and was saying that then). Apparently, 2G should be enought for anyone. Brian