Re: coex draft last call -- review of Section 2
Dave Shield <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:54:47 +0000
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> .... there is nothing illegal > about an INTEGER with no subrange or enumerations; in fact it's > completely equivalent to Integer32 with no subrange. Is there anything in either RFC 2578 or IS 8824 that defines the range of acceptable values for an (unconstrained) INTEGER syntax value? I was under the impression that trying to assign a value of 4294967296 or above (i.e. 2^32) to an object of syntax INTEGER would be theoretically valid - but one particular implementation might easily choke on it, while another would be quite happy. By insisting that all INTEGER-based objects have an explicit range, such inconsistencies in behaviour could be avoided. Or is there something I've missed that applies a 32-bit limitation to apparently unconstrained INTEGER values? Dave