[erlang-questions] Fwd: max timeout

[Serge Aleynikov]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bjorn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@REDACTED>
> Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] max timeout
> To: Serge Aleynikov <saleyn@REDACTED>
> 
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Serge Aleynikov <saleyn@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>> So, does this mean that #1 below is indeed the right answer and that
>> 'receve after' implementation correctly deals with bignums between 2^27 and
>> 2^32?
>>
> No, #2 is the correct answer.
> 
>> 1. 2^32 (this is what's documented, but only seems to work in the shell)
>>
> 
> Documented where? Note that 2^32 does NOT fit in 32 bits (it is a one
> followed by 32 zeroes; i.e. 33 bits).

You are absolutely right!  Typing message too quickly without thinking 
is quite embarrassing.  :-(   What I really should have asked was 
whether the limit was 0xffffFFFF (2^32-1) or 0x7FFFffff (2^31-1). 
Though your comment below explained my main concern regarding bignums.

>> 3. Erlang's small integers (2^27-1 = 1.5 days)
>>
> 
> There used to be such limitation, a long time ago.

Thank you very much!

Serge