On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:11:52PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
is going to be an issue), and bignums rotate assuming they're binary numbers some multiple of 8 bits (minimum 64 bits).
The "some multiple" being the next largest power of 256 that contains the value, or the width that the value happens to be stored in at that time? (Based on previous values assigned to that PMC which may have widened it)
Good question. The size of the bignum, if it's been declared to have a maximum size, or the maximum size that it's been, though that doesn't feel particularly right.
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