Re: [Chicken-users] some more compilation difficulties

[felix]

Carter T Schonwald wrote:
> it turns out that the whole issue, as speculated, was in fact due to
> the time stamps on the files.
>
> Thank you, Felix and Jonah.

You're welcome! Thanks for giving it a try.

> on another note, is it possible to declare a variable to be an unsigned
> integer of 16, 32, or 64 bits (at least 2 of the 3)? (or a vector of such
> integers) It doesn't seem possible, but I just thought should ask anyway, as
> for one my pet projects (a simple arbitrary precision integer arithmetic
> library) such would be necessary in order for it to be practical to
> implement efficiently in scheme instead of c++ or c, which I am not as
> comfortable with.

No, there are not declarations beyond simple global ones (like
"(declare (fixnum))"). But I recommend SRFI-4 number vectors, which
are much more efficient both in time and space.


cheers,
felix