Hello DFDL community,

I think Daffodil should handle input files up to 2^64 in size.

2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (20 digits)

Why that number? Here's why:

The number 2^64 is:

The number of distinct values representable in a single word on a 64-bit 
processor. Or, the number of values representable in a doubleword on a 32-bit 
processor. Or, the number of values representable in a quadword on a 16-bit 
processor, such as the original x86 processors.

The range of a long variable in the Java and C# programming languages.

The range of a Int64 or QWord variable in the Pascal programming language.

The total number of IPv6 addresses generally given to a single LAN or subnet.

Thoughts?

https://www.quora.com/How-big-is-2-power-64 

/Roger

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