Subject: Re: Buggy BinarySearch implementation, real life and a curious soul...
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:54:47 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <b9WdnVUkF_pqohvZnZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Frank Buss  <fb@frank-buss.de> wrote:
+---------------
| (make-array 500000000 :element-type '(unsigned-byte 1)) fails on most 32
| bit Lisp implementations, but it would fit into 63 MB memory.
+---------------

Works fine on CMUCL:

    > (type-of (make-array 500000000 :element-type '(unsigned-byte 1)))

    (SIMPLE-BIT-VECTOR 500000000)
    >

Fails for 536870911 and above, though...  ;-}


-Rob

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