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Re: [Json] Limitations on number size?

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 10 July 2013 04:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Limitations on number size?
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On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:42 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> Apparently, there are already practical problems with interchanging
> 64-bit longs: google for [json large numbers bugs] for lots of reports.
> While there are apparently int32-only systems out there, it's clearly
> understood that they are unusually restricted: such is not the case
> for JavaScript-hosted implementations.

So let's survey implementations.

ECMAScript, Perl, Python, libjv, Jansson, json-c -- all have doubles.

Heimdal's not-really-intended-for-external-use-(not-yet) JSON
implementation only does 32-bit integers.  This one doesn't count, and
it'd be easy to add double support to it if it mattered.  Are there
any C JSON libraries that do NaN coding?

Those are the ones I know, use, and/or contribute to.

Nico
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