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Re: Hexadecimal representation of a negative number
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Hexadecimal representation of a negative number |
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Date: |
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:40:05 +0200 |
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Hi,
Brian Mokrzycki <address@hidden> skribis:
> guile> (number->string #xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 16)
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> Resolves to
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> "-1" in Guile 1.8.7
> "ffffffffffffffff" in Guile 1.6.4
I think this is a bug in 1.8, which 2.0 doesn’t have, if using it is an
option for you.
Would you like to try to find the source of the bug in 1.8 and/or browse
the change log for libguile/numbers.c in 2.0 to find the fix? (The
latter may prove to be tedious, though...)
Thanks,
Ludo’.