Large negative pressures
Thiago Macieira
thiago at macieira.org
Fri Aug 9 17:20:45 PDT 2019
On Wednesday, 7 August 2019 09:31:35 PDT Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 2) Make pressure_t (and related variable) int64_t,
>
> Absolutely not. See above. That would be entirely crazy.
Unless you want to use Subsurface to calculate a dive into the core of the Sun
(pressure there is estimated at around 250 gigabars). That would overflow the
puny int32_t.
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