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[Chicken-janitors] Re: [Chicken-bugs] #381: 64-bit number conversion on


From: Chicken Scheme
Subject: [Chicken-janitors] Re: [Chicken-bugs] #381: 64-bit number conversion on 32-bit platforms sucks
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:54:38 -0000

#381: 64-bit number conversion on 32-bit platforms sucks
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  Reporter:  sjamaan   |       Owner:  felix                                    
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                                      
  Priority:  major     |   Milestone:                                           
 Component:  compiler  |     Version:  2.7                                      
Resolution:            |    Keywords:  fixnums, flonums, numbers, 64-bit, 32-bit
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Comment (by elf):

 hm... what if we use 8 chars or 2 32ints instead of coercing to flonums in
 the first place?  64bit ints are necessary all over the place,and
 requiring numbers or generating an error doesnt seem optimal to me.  i
 have some fixed-bit integer code from a long time ago that could probably
 be fitted in for this case if desired.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.callcc.org/ticket/381#comment:1>
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