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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1995-09-13 17:35:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1995-09-13 17:35:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 93cf55e369c211b6c7f20e6f360ce979f04e7ff8 (patch) | |
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HP-Prec is not 64-bit
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libmarshal.tex b/Doc/lib/libmarshal.tex index 319c195..3abcc42 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libmarshal.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libmarshal.tex @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ supported; and recursive lists and dictionaries should not be written (they will cause infinite loops). {\bf Caveat:} On machines where C's \code{long int} type has more than -32 bits (such as the DEC Alpha or the HP Precision Architecture), it +32 bits (such as the DEC Alpha), it is possible to create plain Python integers that are longer than 32 bits. Since the current \code{marshal} module uses 32 bits to transfer plain Python integers, such values are silently truncated. |