[Chicken-janitors] #298: SRFI-18 time objects store time span as fixnums, which can overflow

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#298: SRFI-18 time objects store time span as fixnums, which can overflow
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 Reporter:  felix           |       Owner:       
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  critical        |   Milestone:  4.6.0
Component:  core libraries  |     Version:  4.5.x
 Keywords:                  |  
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 (reported by Nicolas Pelletier)

 After 12 days, fixnums will overflow on 32-bit platforms. It would be
 better to store the milliseconds span as flonum and use flonum comparisons
 in srfi-18.scm and scheduler.scm.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.irp.oist.jp/trac/chicken/ticket/298>
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