Re: [PATCH][simple-md5] Enable hashing of big files

[lou]

Hi Peter,

> On that note...
>
> >  2. I hope I got the types right. I got a bit confused because
> >     `unsigned-integer` seems to only accept values up to 
> >     INT_MAX
> >     not up to UINT_MAX, which wasn't clear to me from the
> >     documentation here:
> >     http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Foreign%20type%20specifiers#integers
>
> Yeah, I had a look at that. The unsigned-integer type can
> definitely hold UINT_MAX, but the problem is that you're passing
> it to pointer+ which is defined to take "integer", which maps to
> the "int" type in C, resulting in a loss of precision.

Oh I missed that, makes sense! Using most-positive-fixnum as well.

~~Lou