From: Bardur A. <oca...@sc...> - 2004-08-21 21:23:31
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On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 04:17:16PM -0500, Brian Hurt wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > > > (Because ints have a max of 2^31 on > > 32-bit platforms where memory is limited to 2GB (2GB > > usually reserved for kernel) and a max of 2^63 on 64-bit > > platforms where memory is limited to 2^63 bytes (again > > because 2^63 bytes are usually reserved for the kernel). > > Nit pick: ints are signed, so they have a max value of 2^30-1 on 32-bit > systems, 2^62-1 on 64-bits systems. Oh yeah. Forgot about the tag (we're not in C-land any more, Dorothy) and even then max should of course have been 2^31-1 since we're usually talking 2's complement. But, anyway... ;) -- Bardur Arantsson <ba...@im...> <ba...@sc...> Linux does not solve all the problems, but we are working on it. Alan Cox |