Re: bit-extract seems broken.

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: Rob Browning <address@hidden>
> Date: 18 Dec 2000 22:37:51 -0600
> 
>   guile> (bit-extract #b111110100000 0 32)
>   0
>   guile>
> 
> or can it not return more than a limited range?

I think it's a bug.  Consider this:

(number->string (bit-extract #b10000000000000000000111110100000 0 32) 2)
=> "111110100000"

vs.

(number->string (bit-extract #b00000000000000000000111110100000 0 32) 2)
=> "0"

Don't know a fix, though.  Sorry.

Maybe due to the different handling of the parameters if the first
operand is a fixnum?

'mgrabmue
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