Re: [Chicken-users] chicken on linux64

[Graham Fawcett]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:39 AM, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Graham Fawcett
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I know I'll need to recompile Chicken and any shared libraries. Are
>> there other things I should be concerned about, e.g. surprising
>> differences in Chicken behaviour on 64-bit systems?
> The most obvious difference will be that fixnums don't overflow so
> quickly into flonums. Naturally, more storage will be used, as cells
> use twice as much space. Apart from that (and provided you don't
> use too much foreign code), there isn't much of a difference, from
> the chicken point of view.

Thanks, Felix and Sven, for the responses.

Best,
Graham