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On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 07:33:28PM -0700, Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote: > On Sat Feb 13 07:51:05 2010, nicholas wrote: > > There's a lot of inappropriate use of the I32 type throughout the core. > > Likely most should be something else, one of U32, STRLEN, SSize_t, IV > or UV. > > > > The misuse of I32 causes lots of bugs (panics, SEGVs, silent data > errors) if > > strings go over 2GB. > > > > This is a meta-ticket for collating tickets relating to these sorts of > bugs. > > > > What should the maximum string and array lengths be? I think it should be Ssize_t_max. Or more C standardly - ptrdiff_t-max. It might be possible in theory to support longer strings on a 32-bit platform, but with all the bits and pieces that get allocated from the address space* I don't think it's likely that there's an over 2G hole to allocate such an object in. Supporting larger objects on 32-bit platforms could complicate the code for very little benefit. Tony * stack, kernel space, mapped libraries, etcThread Previous | Thread Next