Re: Has bignumber support changed since 1.4?

[Dirk Herrmann]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Crowder, Brian wrote:

> 
> It seems to be somewhat broken in 1.5.1 on Windows 95/98/NT, now...  and it
> wasn't in 1.4.  When I have an immediate value that increments higher than
> 65535 (should become a bignum?), I get a crash in garbage collection:
> 
> free(void * 0x02b86fd8) line 956 + 11 bytes
> scm_must_free(void * 0x02b86fd8) line 2128 + 9 bytes
> scm_gc_sweep() line 1862 + 12 bytes
> scm_igc(const char * 0x008b9da0 `string') line 1155
> scm_gc() line 914 + 10 bytes
> scm_ceval(scm_unused_struct * 0x02ae30a0, scm_unused_struct * 0x02ae2de8)
> line 2686 + 8 bytes
> scm_apply(scm_unused_struct * 0x02ae2da8, scm_unused_struct * 0x00002974,
> scm_unused_struct * 0x02ae2de8) line 3605 + 221 bytes
> scm_call_1(scm_unused_struct * 0x02ae3048, scm_unused_struct * 0x02ae2e08)
> line 3269 + 19 bytes
> CFrontEndManager::TimeSlice() line 1503 + 16 bytes
> .
> .
> .
> .
> 
> Any thoughts?

Could you post a code example, please?

Best regards
Dirk Herrmann