[Chicken-hackers] Re: file-open returns a flonum w/ 2.735

[felix winkelmann]

On Nov 6, 2007 9:46 PM, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Felix,
>
> The current Chicken trunk returns a flonum from file-open (in egg-
> post-commit):
>
> Uploading files:
> Error: (file-read) bad argument type - not a fixnum: 23546.0
>
>          Call history:
>
>          <eval>          [out.2487] ((lambda (fd.2491) ((lambda (data.
> 2492) ((lambda () (begin (print* fname.2488 (quote " ")) (with-pro......
>          <eval>          [out.2487] (file-open fname.2488 open/read)
>          <eval>          [out.2487] ((lambda (data.2492) ((lambda ()
> (begin (print* fname.2488 (quote " ")) (with-progress-indicator
> (la......
>          <eval>          [out.2487] (first (file-read fd.2491 s.2490))
>          <eval>          [out.2487] (file-read fd.2491 s.2490)
>          <eval>          [main] (k.3548 (lambda () (begin (print-
> error-message ex.3549) (print-call-chain) (exit (quote 1)))))
>          <eval>          [main] (print-error-message ex.3549)
>          <eval>          [main] (print-call-chain)       <--
>
> Not sure where the problem is.
>

Argh - I should have mentioned that on the -hackers mailing list.
"file-size" should handle >4GB files now and such can return a
flonum. Due to a bootstrapping issue (ffi changed slightly), compiling
posixunix.scm with the old chicken will always return a flonum.
Just touch posixunix.scm and rebuild.


cheers,
felix