On Mar 8, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:15:43PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> 2147483647, i.e. slightly more than 2 billion.
>>
>> That's assuming you are using a 32bit machine, of course.
>>
>> So, if you make 1 commit every second without pause, that will last
>> you
>> until the year 2073, by which time, it's a fairly safe bet that you
>> will
>> have moved on to a 64bit machine, and can enjoy the freedom to have
>> up to 9
>> quintillion revisions.
>
> ObOffTopic: actually, many C implementations for 64bit OS's keep 'long'
> as a 32 bit quantity, using the abomination 'long long' for 64bit
> integer types.
...
> So as long (heh!) as the subversion revision is kept typed as
> 'long int', it will likely stay a 32 bit integer.
Really? A quick double-check shows that 64-bit longs ("LP64") are
present when invoking the compile-for-64bit option on these various
systems:
- gcc 3.2.3 on a 64-bit Opteron Linux
- xlc on AIX (many versions)
- cc on 64-bit HPUX system
- cc (SUNWspro) on SunOS 5.7
Travis
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Received on Wed Mar 9 01:50:14 2005