Guile 1.5.8 beta available for testing.

[Sven Hartrumpf]

Hi all.

Some notes from a Linux build:

gcc32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I./.. -I../libltdl -g -O2 -Wall 
-Wmissing-prototypes -c numbers.c -MT numbers.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/numbers.TPlo 
 -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/numbers.lo
In file included from numbers.c:4277:
../libguile/num2integral.i.c: In function `scm_short2num':
../libguile/num2integral.i.c:91: warning: comparison is always true due to 
limited range of data type
In file included from numbers.c:4285:
../libguile/num2integral.i.c: In function `scm_num2ushort':
../libguile/num2integral.i.c:64: warning: comparison is always true due to 
limited range of data type
I think I reported this before for another gcc version.

Application tests:
1. correctness: seems to be o.k.
   (can not finish these tests because Scheme processes that
   normally stay around 200MB grow and grow under Guile to over 1GB)
2. speed: around 40 times slower than compiled bigloo
   -> o.k. for Guile objectives
3. process size: see 1.
   -> I could need helpful hints here.

Greetings
Sven