Re: [Qexo-general] limits of for instruction !

[Per Bothner]

Rami RIFAIEH wrote:
> I was using in my query the command let and for
> to open a certain number of XML files (49860 files) and treat it one by one,
> and I discovered that the number maximum of trated files was 8191  (2 power
> 13),
>
> then I tried this simple query
>
> <number_max>
> { for $a in (1 to 8194)
>  return $a
> }
> </number_max>
>
> the result of the query was: 1 2 .... 8191
> this means that the second operand of "for" instruction is as maximum 8192,

Hm.  I'm leaving for a two-day trip, so I can't give you an answer now.
My guess is a bug in gnu.lists.TreeList.  It optimizes "short offsets",
and you may have have run into a section of code which hasn't been
tested before.

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non-subscribers.)
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