Opened 10 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#1096 closed defect (fixed)
(abs most-negative-fixnum) does return negative value
| Reported by: | Christian Kellermann | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 5.0 |
| Component: | core libraries | Version: | 4.8.x |
| Keywords: | abs core | Cc: | |
| Estimated difficulty: |
Description
Found by David Krenzlin on #chicken
$ csi -n CHICKEN (c) 2008-2014, The Chicken Team (c) 2000-2007, Felix L. Winkelmann Version 4.8.4 (rev 7dad446) linux-unix-gnu-x86-64 [ 64bit manyargs dload ptables ] compiled 2014-02-03 on devpool08 (Linux) #;1> (abs most-negative-fixnum) -4611686018427387904 #;2> (fixnum? most-negative-fixnum) #t
Works fine with the numbers egg's version.
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by
| Priority: | major → minor |
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comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by
| Milestone: | 4.9.0 → 4.10.0 |
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comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by
| Milestone: | 4.10.0 → 5.0 |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
This has been fixed in CHICKEN 5 through the numbers integration. I think it is acceptable to leave this problem in CHICKEN 4 because it's such an extreme edge case, and fixing it in CHICKEN 4 would require quite a bit of brainpower and time.
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Not important enough to delay 4.9.0 any longer