9 Feb
2006
9 Feb
'06
2:59 p.m.
On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
This has been mentioned from time to time and will eventually be changed.
The original rationale was that in some platforms it was 64 bits which seemed wasteful for binary archives - that is 2 G Objects seemed enough.
Now it seems that we'll really need a special type for collection count.
In anycase, it can't be just changed without making obsolete existing archives - so its kind of a slow process.
It can still be changed and be backward-compatible by bumping the version number. Matthias