On Sep 22, 2016, at 4:55 PM, John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org> wrote:



On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Bradley Lucier <xxxxxx@math.purdue.edu> wrote:

Is this SRFI meant just as a FFI interface to C library routines, or as something different?


The ones with C library equivalents are, the rest are not.  I'll add that to the spec.  However, the spec is supposed to sort-of work even on systems without IEEE floats.


Maybe it would help to organize the specification as:

Here are the functions that should have the same semantics as the ones in libc: <table of scheme function—C function>

And here are the other ones: …

Brad