Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sqlite3 egg patches for chicken experimental branch

[Felix]

From: Alan Post <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sqlite3 egg patches for chicken experimental 
branch
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 14:10:36 -0700

> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 09:52:52PM +0100, Felix wrote:
>> I recommend not to use fixnum mode, and to use fixnum-specific
>> operators instead. It can happen too easily that a library procedure
>> returns inexact results (for example for very large numbers that
>> exceed fixnum range).
>> 
>> Apologies for the ruthless cleaning up over the holidays, but I think
>> it is better go through this sooner than later.
>> 
> 
> What are the fixnum operators?  I didn't know they existed, and I'd
> like to use them myself rather than declaring fixnum.  I'm indexing
> into a buffer that came from a file, so I can by definition use the
> machine's word size.

See

http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Unit%20library#arithmetic-fixnum-operations


cheers,
felix