On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Andrew M. Bishop
<a...@gedanken.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Since 2^31 nodes will make older versions of some software unusable
> and 2^32 nodes will make other versions unusable it would be helpful
> to have a wiki page to record this information.  I think that most
> useful would be a table of the minimum version of each piece of
> software to support true 32-bit (> 2^31) and 64-bit node numbers.


I might be pointing out the obvious here, but isn't the bigger risk
that some software will fail silently rather than catastrophically?
Like, an editor tries to save node 2^32+100, and saves it as 100, or
something?

Steve

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