Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] libxl: ocaml: use int64 for timeval fields in the timeout_register callback

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Hoes writes ("[PATCH 2/3] libxl: ocaml: use int64 for timeval fields in the 
timeout_register callback"):
> The original code works fine on 64-bit, but on 32-bit, the OCaml int
> (which is 1 bit smaller than the C int) is likely to overflow.

The timeouts are in milliseconds.  2^30 ms is 1.07megaseconds, or 12.4
days.

If it would help I would be happy to have libxl promise never to use
such absurdly long timeouts.

Ian.

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