Module Core_int63

module Core_int63: sig .. end

63 or 64 bit integers.

The size of Int63 is always at least 63 bits. On a 64-bit platform it is just an int (63-bits), and on a 32-bit platform it is an int64.

Because Int63 has different sizes on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, there are several pitfalls to be aware of:

• Int63 will behave differently in the case of overflow.

• marshalling Int63 will not work between 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. unmarshal will segfault.

• bin_io will work, except that it will raise an overflow exception when you send too large of an int from a 32-bit to a 64-bit platform. This is couterintuitive because the 32-bit platform has the larger int size.

include Int_intf.S

We expose private int so that the compiler can omit caml_modify when dealing with record fields holding Int63.t. Code should not explicitly make use of the private, e.g. via (i :> int), since such code will not compile on 32-bit platforms.

val of_int : int -> t

val to_int : t -> int option