From: Guido van Rossum Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 17:35:28 +0000 (+0000) Subject: HP-Prec is not 64-bit X-Git-Tag: v1.3~136 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=93cf55e369c211b6c7f20e6f360ce979f04e7ff8;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git HP-Prec is not 64-bit --- diff --git a/Doc/lib/libmarshal.tex b/Doc/lib/libmarshal.tex index 319c195139c6..3abcc4291dc9 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. diff --git a/Doc/libmarshal.tex b/Doc/libmarshal.tex index 319c195139c6..3abcc4291dc9 100644 --- a/Doc/libmarshal.tex +++ b/Doc/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.