From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-09 09:59:37
On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
> This has been mentioned from time to time and will eventually be
> changed.
>
> The original rationale was that in some platforms it was 64 bits which
> seemed wasteful for binary archives - that is 2 G Objects seemed
> enough.
>
> Now it seems that we'll really need a special type for collection
> count.
>
> In anycase, it can't be just changed without making obsolete existing
> archives - so its kind of a slow process.
It can still be changed and be backward-compatible by bumping the
version number.
Matthias