On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 08:20:33PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > This thread may be of interest: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-05/threads.html#02162 > > Currently, qemu silently clips any JSON integer in the range > 0x8000_0000_0000_0000 - 0xffff_ffff_ffff_ffff (all numbers in this > range will be clipped to 0x7fff_ffff_ffff_ffff == LLONG_MAX). > > This basically could affect any libvirt code in this file which uses > the "U:..." prefix as far as I can tell: > > http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c;hb=HEAD Reinventing the wheel allows to make the same mistakes multiple times :-) XPath Number IMHO got this right by referencing IEEE 754 but then XSLT made the fatal mistake of referencing the JDK 1.1 w.r.t. behaviour when serializing back (and reimplementing in C was a nightmare) Funny how people bashing technology N-1 manage to reproduce the same mistake or worse when designing N Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list