Error building dylan-test-suite (constants-test)

[pedro-w]

When building the libraries-test-suite-app I get a C compiler error

constants.c:550:22: 
error: integer literal is too large to be represented in any integer type

  T0 = (dylan_value) 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF8000000000000001L;

from compiling this test code:

opendylan/sources/dylan/tests/constants.dylan

Lines 22 to 27 in f8e2579

	define dylan-extensions constant-test $maximum-integer ()
	//---*** Add some more tests here...
	check-condition("$maximum-integer + 1 overflows",
	<error>,
	$maximum-integer + 1)
	end constant-test $maximum-integer;

There are three parts to this

1. There's a problem with DFMC's compile-time arithmetic.
2. This test shouldn't happen at compile-time anyway, it's supposed to test the runtime addition
3. If the test is made to happen at runtime (easy enough to do) it doesn't raise a condition

I can look into this, but just wanted some opinions first - is this Mac specific or does everyone get this C error? And, on a bigger point, should numerical overflow be raising conditions? At the moment AFAICS it doesn't but implementing it would introduce overhead to many mathematical operations.
Possibly related: #76

[cgay]

Did you mean #76 ? Also these two seems in the same general area:
#863
#633

[pedro-w]

I did mean #76. I've edited the original comment.