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commit 05cbd44f755c0b3fe14571de6ee93992bb851ac3
Author:     Peter Bex <peter.bex@xs4all.nl>
AuthorDate: Tue May 6 00:47:36 2014 +0200
Commit:     Peter Bex <peter.bex@xs4all.nl>
CommitDate: Tue May 6 00:47:36 2014 +0200

    Update 'data representation' manual section to match the current wiki version

diff --git a/manual/Data representation b/manual/Data representation
index 610546aa..52910e0f 100644
--- a/manual/Data representation	
+++ b/manual/Data representation	
@@ -43,9 +43,12 @@ The first word of the data block contains a header, which gives
 information about the type of the object. The header is a
 single machine word.
 
-The 24 lowest-order bits contain the length of the data object, which
-is either the number of bytes in a string or byte-vector, or the
-number of elements for a vector or record type.
+The 24 (56 on 64-bit systems) lowest-order bits contain the length of
+the data object, which is either the number of bytes in a string or
+byte-vector, or the number of elements for a vector or record type. This
+allows a maximum size for data objects of 2^24 bytes, or approximately
+16 MB, on 32-bit systems, and 2^56 bytes, or approximately 72 PB, on
+64-bit systems.
 
 The remaining bits are placed in the high-order end of the header.
 The four highest-order bits are used for garbage