[plt-scheme] Fixnum Conversion

On Apr 11, Erich Rast wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a bit confused about numbers. A fixnum can hold numbers that fit  
> into 31 or 63 bits depending on whether the machine is 32 bit or 64  
> bit, right?
> 
> How do I convert a positive integer number in the range from  
> 0...4294967295 (inclusive) on any machine to a little-endian encoded 4- 
> element bytes string?

You can use (integer->integer-bytes 4294967295 4 #f #f) -- with #f for
the `signed?' flag, since otherwise it doesn't fit into 4 bytes.

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