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(system-type 'word)
on 'pb
always reports 64
#4692
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I'm not sure what the result should be. It's accurate in the sense that it reflects the size of addresses within Racket. Meanwhile, to use Racket's FFI — and therefore, to much much of anything with Racket besides maybe bootstrapping Racket — you'll need to have a more specific machine type, like Is there some case where the result from (Is it even possible to build Racket as |
It seems it is not, which is fine with me! An attempt just now with
The question came up while I was revisiting #3948 (an especially improbable situation to be in with a
would produce the right pbarch machine type for the current system. |
The documentation for
system-type
says:The implementation for CS is:
racket/racket/src/cs/rumble/system.ss
Line 168 in 89a8b08
But, on
pb
andtpb
machine types, fixnums may be larger than the word size at the OS level.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: