On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 04:08:20AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> If we later find ourselves needing an actual 64-bit unsigned value,
> unrelated to counters, we can add RCounter at that point and
> repurpose RUInt64 to the new purpose.  We've done that sort of enum
> splitting before; the enum names are less important that the
> underlying abstract type that then has to be ported to all the
> language bindings for the semantics it will be representing.

Right - the generator can change as much as we like.  What matters is
the C API/ABI.  Less so the OCaml API: there's no guarantee for that,
and we've changed that a bit over time, we just not to break it for no
good reason.

Rich.

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