Comment 3 for bug 295846
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| Abdulaziz Ghuloum (aghuloum) wrote Re: [Bug 295846] Re: More file system primitives | #3 |
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On Nov 9, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Derick Eddington wrote:
> Maybe this s.st_size should be chopped into 3 pieces, or Aziz can make
> it into a bignum from C if it's too big for a fixnum? What's the best
> portable way?
I don't know. It depends on how pervasive the size of file-size is.
I usually chop it into pieces when I should not allocate (e.g., in
time-it). Otherwise, I'd just return a fixnum or bignum depending
on the size.