Re: [Chicken-users] long pointer equivalent

[Perry E. Metzger]

"felix" <address@hidden> writes:
> So would it be ok to have a foreign type specifier `int64' and
> `unsigned-int64' that is handled on the Scheme side as a float? Like:
> 
> (define lseek
>   (foreign-lambda unsigned-int64 "lseek" unsigned-int64 int) )

Well, it can't be a float in that if you're doing lseeks you really
want to specify which block in the disk it is you're looking for, not
which general section. :)

However, it is not strictly speaking necessary for Chicken itself to
have a native 64 bit type -- if we had bignums, for instance, it would
be fine if some magic converted between a bignum and a 64 bit
external-only type that was never used by chicken except for
communication with the C interface.


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