From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Ranges and (non)static constraints
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:02:36 -0500
Date: 2006-11-21T16:02:36-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccbqn0wm1f.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yD98h.152478$aJ.70530@attbi_s21
"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org> writes:
>> Instead of Machine_Integer, perhaps we want a way to define a type that
>> can count the number of Mumble objects, given that if we create more
>> than some number of Mumble objects, or an array of them, we can be sure
>> this count will not overflow. That is, we would have run out of
>> (virtual) memory before that count overflows.
>
> That would have to be a dynamic type, as the actual upper bound could
> not generally be known at compile time.
I don't see why. It's easy to come up with a static worst-case bound
based on the size of the address space.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-16 11:02 Ranges and (non)static constraints Maciej Sobczak
2006-11-16 12:23 ` Martin Krischik
2006-11-16 13:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-11-16 19:01 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-18 0:02 ` Robert A Duff
2006-11-16 13:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-16 17:18 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-11-17 9:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-17 10:30 ` Stuart
2006-11-17 10:37 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-11-17 14:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-17 16:04 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-11-18 9:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-18 14:17 ` Stephen Leake
2006-11-17 20:05 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-17 23:58 ` Robert A Duff
2006-11-18 9:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-19 2:27 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-19 12:13 ` Björn Persson
2006-11-19 22:51 ` Robert A Duff
2006-11-20 3:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-21 21:02 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2006-11-20 17:35 ` Adam Beneschan
2006-11-17 15:45 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-11-17 16:45 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-11-17 10:39 ` AW: " Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2006-11-17 11:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-17 13:30 ` Stuart
2006-11-17 15:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-17 16:47 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-11-20 14:08 ` Stuart
2006-11-20 14:12 ` Stuart
2006-11-20 15:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-16 18:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-16 20:00 ` Adam Beneschan
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