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[Chicken-janitors] Re: [Chicken-bugs] #348: Chicken should use proper C


From: felix winkelmann
Subject: [Chicken-janitors] Re: [Chicken-bugs] #348: Chicken should use proper C types for struct stat members
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:32:19 +0100

On Nov 15, 2007 9:00 PM, Chicken Scheme <address@hidden> wrote:
> #348: Chicken should use proper C types for struct stat members
> ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------
> Reporter:  sjamaan                     |        Owner:  felix
>     Type:  defect                      |       Status:  closed
> Priority:  major                       |    Component:  core libraries
>  Version:  2.7                         |   Resolution:  fixed
> Keywords:  typing, C interface, posix  |
> ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------
> Comment (by sjamaan):
>
>  It does not crash anymore, but for big files it returns flonums.  This
>  will most likely break applications that assume file-size returns fixnums,
>  but only when you pass them a big file. Is this desirable?
>

(Can't get trac right now...)

Chicken has only two numeric types. There is no better solution for this, and we
don't want to make it dependent on "numbers".


cheers,
felix




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