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author | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2011-01-18 16:45:50 +0100 |
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committer | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2011-01-18 16:57:26 +0100 |
commit | 5b8609d544911b60a1c384b11d96c147128a848d (patch) | |
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Lower the maximum arity from 256 to 255
Historically, for no good reason, a function is allowed to have
from 0 to 256 arguments. Thus, the number of arguments *almost*
fits into a byte.
HiPE only supports up to 255 arguments (because it assumes that
the function arity fits into a single byte), and fixing that limitation
would require ugly special-case handling. In Dialyzer, the arity
type is defined to be a byte (i.e. 0..255).
Since no-one uses functions with 256 arguments anyway, lower the
limit to 255.
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