Re:Strange multiplication behavior in Guile Scheme interpreter
by TwistedWave on Thursday January 24, 2013 @03:26AM
(#5108353)
It boils down to:
> (* 4294967296 4294967296)
$1 = 0
My guess is that guile uses the native int type to store small numbers, and then switches to a bignums, backed by GNU MP when the native ints are too small. Maybe in that particular case, the check fails, and the computation overflows the native int.
> (* 4294967296 4294967296)
$1 = 0
My guess is that guile uses the native int type to store small numbers, and then switches to a bignums, backed by GNU MP when the native ints are too small. Maybe in that particular case, the check fails, and the computation overflows the native int.