Phil,

There are no intrinsics for boxing word-size bignums yet, so 8 byte
alien accessors compile as calls to primitives. Also, 4 byte alien
accessors on 32-bit systems are the same.

Slava

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Phil Dawes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Slava,
>
> I noticed that there's no compiler intrinsic for 8 byte alien calls
> (e.g. alien-unsigned-8, set-alien-signed-8 etc..)
>
> Is this just a short term omission or is there a design point I'm missing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil

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