errata: size of fixnums

[Stefan Israelsson Tampe]

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