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Re: How to stay in fixnum range?
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: How to stay in fixnum range? |
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Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:00:33 +0100 |
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On Mon 19 Jan 2009 22:02, "Panicz Maciej Godek" <address@hidden> writes:
> The problem may appear when I add some number to the
> return value of get-internal-real-time -- what if, during addition,
> the scheme fixnum limit is exceeded and the variable becomes
> a bignum?
You could (logand (get-internal-real-time) most-positive-fixnum)
Have you determined when this could happen? most-positive-fixnum can be
quite large on 64-bit machines. I guess you only get 64 days without
bignums on 32-bit machines.
Andy
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