I agree. I should use Int64 instead of just int, but I still think
that the application (Random.int max_int) should not be exception
prone. Since max_int is architecture dependent, then so should be
Random.int no?

But you point is well taken. Thanks again
J


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Andres Varon <avaron@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 16, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Jean Krivine wrote:
>
>> Good news, I just tested the patch and it works great with my application!
>> I just had to modify the module random since a call to (Random.int
>> max_int) may raise and exception (it is made for 32 bits integers).
>> So I guess that modification should be included in the patch.
>
> I don't think that's a good idea. You have to use Random.int64 to get a 64
> bit random integer. The Random.int function will return an integer between 0
> and 2^30. Check the Random module documentation here:
>
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Random.html
>
> I wouldn't play with a random number generator unless I know exactly what
> I'm doing. Your results depend on it! (well, your messed-up-by-andres
> compiler could already have issues ... :-(, for what I use it I can verify
> the result with a 32 bit binary or a 64 bit linux binary, if you can, then
> do the same!).
>
>
> Andres
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot Andres.
>> Jean
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Jean Krivine
>> <jean_krivine@hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Great thanks!
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Andres Varon <avaron@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 15, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Jean Krivine wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'd be glad to try the patch if you could post it somewhere!
>>>>
>>>> I have posted it in:
>>>>
>>>> http://research.amnh.org/~avaron/ocaml/
>>>>
>>>> best,
>>>>
>>>> Andres
>>>>>
>>>>> J
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Andres Varon <avaron@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Jean,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is no 64-bit native OCaml compiler for Mac OS X intel.  I have a
>>>>>> patch
>>>>>> that works in Leopard, but did not compile opt.opt in Tiger, meaning
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> something is not OK,  so I did not offer it to the community. The
>>>>>> bootstrap
>>>>>> went fine, findlib and godi compiled OK too. I can post the patches
>>>>>> somewhere if you want to give it a shot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My memory intensive application runs fine in Leopard with this
>>>>>> compiler.
>>>>>> But
>>>>>> the binaries do not execute in Tiger (I found that other people had
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> same
>>>>>> trouble copying a 64 bit apps from Leopard to Tiger and the other way
>>>>>> around, but didn't look into it).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you want it ... I can post it, maybe someone can cleanup my job?
>>>>>> All
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> would be needed after patching is:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ./configure -host x86_64-apple-darwin -prefix /opt/ocaml/experimental
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (The prefix I always add for my ocaml-modified comilers).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> best,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andres
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jul 15, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Jean Krivine wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear all
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I downloaded the last version of ocaml (3.10.2) but I must confess I
>>>>>>> don't know what option I should pass to the compiler to make a binary
>>>>>>> that uses 64 bits.
>>>>>>> I tried naively ocamlopt -ccopt -arch -ccopt x86_64 but that doesn't
>>>>>>> work. Any idea?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:49:26PM -0400, Jean Krivine wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am trying to run a stochastic simulator (written in ocaml) on a
>>>>>>>>> huge
>>>>>>>>> data set and I have the following error message:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I can confirm that OCaml works fine with huge datasets, on 64 bit
>>>>>>>> platforms anyway.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> sim(9595) malloc: *** mmap(size=1048576) failed (error code=12)
>>>>>>>>> *** error: can't allocate region
>>>>>>>>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>>>>>>>> Fatal error: out of memory.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> My system:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Mac Pro running OS X 10.5.4
>>>>>>>>> Processor:  2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
>>>>>>>>> Memory:  10 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Does someone know what happened? Do you have any idea of any
>>>>>>>>> parameter
>>>>>>>>> I could tune in order to avoid that?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is the compiler 32 bits or 64 bits on this machine?  Try doing:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> $ ocaml
>>>>>>>> # Sys.word_size ;;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It should print out either '32' or '64'.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Also run your program under whatever the OS X equivalent of 'strace'
>>>>>>>> is (ktrace?) to find out exactly why the mmap call fails.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> OCaml <= 3.10.2 on Linux suffers a nasty problem with its use of
>>>>>>>> mmap
>>>>>>>> and randomized address spaces
>>>>>>>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445545#c9) but it
>>>>>>>> doesn't
>>>>>>>> seem like this is the same issue.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Rich.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Richard Jones
>>>>>>>> Red Hat
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