scsh-0.6/scheme/vm/bignum-low.scm

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; Copyright (c) 1993-1999 by Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees. See file COPYING.
; Manipulating bignums.
(define (extract-bignum desc)
(assert (bignum? desc))
(address-after-header desc))
(define (enter-bignum external-bignum)
(let ((desc (address->stob-descriptor external-bignum)))
(assert (bignum? desc))
(make-immutable! desc)
desc))
; The extra digit is where the MIT bignum code stores the length.
(define (bignum-alloc number-of-digits key)
(make-bignum (cells->bytes (+ number-of-digits 1)) key))
; This doesn't use ENTER-BIGNUM because we need to preserve mutability
; until the entire bignum operation has completed.
;
; If the new size is smaller we change the length in the header and install a
; new header at the beginning of the now-unused bytes at the end.
(define (shorten-bignum external-bignum number-of-digits)
(let ((bignum (address->stob-descriptor external-bignum)))
(let ((new-size (cells->bytes
(bignum-size (cells->bytes (+ number-of-digits 1)))))
(old-size (header-lengh-in-bytes (stob-header bignum))))
(assert (<= new-size old-size))
(if (< new-size old-size)
(begin
(stob-header-set! bignum
(make-header (enum stob bignum) new-size))
(stob-header-set! (address->stob-descriptor
(address+ (address-after-header bignum)
(+ stob-overhead
(bytes->a-units new-size))))
(make-header (enum stob bignum)
(- old-size new-size)))))
external-bignum)))