[Chicken-users] 32 bit integers?

[Dan Muresan]

Hi,

I've just realized that "normal" Chicken integers are 31 bits wide:

csi> (inexact->exact 1073741824)
[ nasty error ]
csi> (inexact->exact 1073741823)
1073741823
csi> (/ (log 1073741824) (log 2))
30.0

Wider integers are promoted to flonums. This is somewhat undesirable 
when interfacing to C libraries.

Is there a native-integer type (like in OCaml)? Since the SRFI-4 vectors 
have exact 8, 16 and 32-bit integer elements, it might make sense to 
have native integers too...


Cheers,
Dan