Re: [Chicken-users] set-file-position! only works with fixnums

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 00:30 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Kon Lovett scripsit:
> 
> > Possible is adding a int64_t heap type. But involves hitting every  
> > piece of code that any extension of the core number system would.
> 
> Indeed.  If we're going to do that, I'd rather go with core bignums
> after all, perhaps from LibTomMath (which is dedicated to the public
> domain by its author), and dispose of the issue once and for all.

Something like this is surely my preference too.