The (small) bug may be corrected in later version (I'm still using the old style (early 1.7) uniform arrays). The improvement suggested below is actually part of a general 32/64 bit problem.
bug: size of scm_tc7_ivect and scm_tc7_uvect is long, but should be int. causes: on 64 bit machine, there are no 32 bit int vectors available. (I've fixed this locally) improvement suggestion: size of SCM should be configurable to 32 bit on 64 bit machine. As it is now, it causes a lot of wasted memory and I guess also unnecessary usage of memory band width. This is a somewhat bigger change as most addressing needs to be base relative. I guess there are utilites available to allocate memory within certain (e.g. 32 bit) boundaries, (there was in VMS I used once) but haven't found any in GNU/Linux, apart from possibly start in mmap. Maybe even gcc provides a nice solution to this, but haven't found anything (someth like: short pointer and long pointer which I think I've seen in some languages long time ago). /Roland Orre _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user
