A patch for large string support

[Daniel Ridge]

Hello,

Apologies in advance if this is a topic that has already been  
addressed in Guile in some other way.

I use large strings in Guile and frequently bump into the 24 bit  
string size limit in guile 1.6.x.

I patch my Guiles with the attached small patch for large strings and  
wondered if there was any general interest in this type of thing. I  
started using this approach under 1.6.4 and have recently updated the  
patch to 1.6.8

I make no warranties about the correctness of this approach.

Regards,
        Dan Ridge

bigstring-1.6.8.patch
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