~ chicken-core (chicken-5) 1218353a7867e19403950c3f7d060dd38275ffca
commit 1218353a7867e19403950c3f7d060dd38275ffca Author: Peter Bex <peter.bex@xs4all.nl> AuthorDate: Tue May 6 00:50:52 2014 +0200 Commit: Peter Bex <peter.bex@xs4all.nl> CommitDate: Tue May 6 00:50:52 2014 +0200 sync again :) diff --git a/manual/Data representation b/manual/Data representation index 52910e0f..129e7058 100644 --- a/manual/Data representation +++ b/manual/Data representation @@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ single machine word. 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. +allows a maximum size for string or byte-vectors 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 garbageTrap