From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 8611@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8611: fixnum arithmetic should not wrap around
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 15:41:24 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpqnytilu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DC16B6C.3090803@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 04 May 2011 08:06:20 -0700")
>> Conversion to float is in general not a good idea
> OK, how about using bignum instead?
That would be cleaner, semantics-wise. But we already have a recent
thread about it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-03 18:27 bug#8611: fixnum arithmetic should not wrap around Paul Eggert
2011-05-04 0:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-04 1:19 ` Paul Eggert
2011-05-04 1:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-04 4:10 ` Paul Eggert
2011-05-04 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-04 15:06 ` Paul Eggert
2011-05-04 18:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-06-11 0:00 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-22 17:02 ` bug#8611: close Tom Tromey
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