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Datum: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:42:43 -0500 Von: Bradley Lucier lucier@math.purdue.edu An: Siegfried Gonzi siegfried.gonzi@gmx.at CC: Bradley Lucier lucier@math.purdue.edu, Christian Jaeger christian@pflanze.mine.nu, gambit-list@iro.umontreal.ca Betreff: Re: [gambit-list] SRFI-56(Re: Reading binary files)
On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Siegfried Gonzi wrote:
Petite Chez 6.0a is the next most complete failing 6, followed by Gambit4b14 failing 8.
Anyone any experience with srfi-56 on Gambit.
I just downloaded srfi-56 reference implementation and the test suite; the final result with Gambit 4.1.2 was
463 tests passed. 0 tests failed.
There were lots of individual tests that were reported as "close- enough"; I don't yet know what that means.
I haven't tested srfi-56 yet (I am still hoping Bigloo can be installed on my machine. But any way Gambit and Chicken are very mature distributions).
What I do not understand: srfi-56 seems to be a very useful library. I browsed through the srfis and haven't yet found an srfi which can be used for reading binary data (floats, doubles, and big endian, small endian).
I think it is a pity that it is being withdrawn.
Regards, Siegfried Btw: I checked up the Bigloo manual and there it is said: flonums are C double precision numbers and fixnums are 32-2 bits.