Hrm, the coffee must have been strong last night, I spotted the bug, It's not inside guile.
Cheers Stefan On Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:22:35 am you wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that sending a fixnum 6bytes long to guile returned a > truncated fixnum of 4 of 4 bytes. I guess that this would not break > the numeriks but it looks like we are wasting space here and/or clock > cycles. > > The suspicius part is line 66 in numbers.h > > #define SCM_MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM ((SCM_T_SIGNED_BITS_MAX-3)/4) > > which means that trunkation will be at 4bytes on a 64bit system. > I changed 4 to 2 (mayby unsafe in corner cases) and the truncation > disapeared. > > So Bugg Feature? > > Regards > Stefan
