[racket] fixnum on a 64 bit processor

Thanks very much. I just downloaded the latest nightly build of the full
windows x64 version and my fixnums indeed go up to and including 62 bits. I
keep being amazed about how quick PLT responds to customer requests and how
rapidly Racket is develloping further ad further. On the dev list, which I
read but as a non-develloper do not post to, I can see how carefull
decisions are made. GREAT! (; sorry about shouting ;)
Jos

-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Barzilay [mailto:eli at barzilay.org] 
Sent: viernes, 08 de julio de 2011 16:29
To: Jos Koot
Cc: users at racket-lang.org
Subject: Re: [racket] fixnum on a 64 bit processor

10 minutes ago, Jos Koot wrote:
>  
> Can anyone shed some light on this. I am sure I am doing something
> wrong or I may interprete things wrongly. But what? I can imagine
> that Windows 7 is simulating a 64 bits machine on 32 bits hardware
> and Racket sees through it.  I run a Samsung R540 with windows 7. My
> 64 bit Bullguard is running fine on my machine.

If you've installed the released x86 binary, then that's a 32-bit
build, which means that it works the same as it did anywhere else.
You need to use a 64-bit build to get the bigger word sizes.  We
started to make those builds shortly after the last release, so you
can try to install Windows 64-bit from the nightly builds page:

  http://pre.racket-lang.org/installers/

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