Jira (PUP-3170) Cap integer and float sizes

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on an issue   Re: Cap integer and float sizes If it is currently stored in Puppet DB, then it cannot be bigger than 64 bit signed. At some point in the evolution of disk sizes we simply need to scale the value / express the unit. The big values are more of interest when aggregating something like "total disk capacity", but you can use floats and scale, do you really want it expressed in "bytes"? Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-3170 Cap integer and float sizes The language specification says that Integer and Float becomes BigInteger and BigDecimal automatically. In reality this will not work since the rest of the infrastructure (notably binary serialization and Puppet DB) encodes integers as 64 bit signed, and floats as IEEE 754 binary64. We should change the specification to put this cap on the size. We ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.