[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Raise error on construction of too large vectors/blobs

[Christian Kellermann]

Hi,

the attached patch raises an error when one tries to create too
large vectors or blobs.  Before a out of range error message has
been raised, which can be a bit confusing (at least to me). Also
this patch adjusts the check to the respective srfi-4 maximum values.

A small section in the srfi-4 manual has been added to explain these
limits (they were not obvious to me).

Tests have been added to verify the existance of these limits.

This patch needs to be tested on a 64bit system, as I don't have
access to one atm.

The discussion has been triggered by bug #794.

Thanks,

Christian

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0002-Raise-error-on-construction-of-too-large-vectors-blo.patch
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