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Re: Should logior (and friends) operate only on inums?

To: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow at alum dot mit dot edu>
Subject: Re: Should logior (and friends) operate only on inums?
From: "Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>
Date: 17 Jan 2000 13:22:53 -0800
Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001171647520.741-100000@goo.dev.mt.lv> <388385BB.3BC71901@alum.mit.edu>

Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Janis Dzerins wrote:
> > 
> > Or should they be more general? (At the moment I need logXXX to act on
> > longs with the mask like #xf0000000, but, only INMUS accepted)
> > 
> 
> The logical operations should work at least on all integers, including
> bignums. Patches to do this will gladly be accepted.

It's now back to working on all unsigned longs (I never meant to change
it).  Bignums were never supported, and I won't be writing that patch
(and I'm not even convinced that that should be in the core, actually).

Greg

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