Hi all,
I'm running into a problem between Guile 1.6.4 and Guile 1.8.7.
Basically I'm manipulating bit masks in Guile and need to generate a
hexadecimal string representation of an integer. Unfortutely this worked just
fine in Guile 1.6.4 but not so well in Guile 1.8.7.
The offending statement:
guile> (number->string #xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 16)
Resolves to
"-1" in Guile 1.8.7
"ffffffffffffffff" in Guile 1.6.4
It appears that Guile is treating the number as a signed value in 1.8 and an
unsigned value in 1.6. I'm really looking for the 1.6 interpretation. Is this
a bug? If not, how to get this to come out as an unsigned value?
-Brian
