From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 32252@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 06:49:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zhyhxmox.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e929ed7f-5168-f20b-861d-cfa4983b3b0c@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:39:08 -0700")
On Mon, Jul 23 2018, Paul Eggert wrote:
> %a has quite a different meaning in C11, so we'd need to use some
With your change %x will also have quite a different meaning in C11.
> other letter (or set of letters, if we want something for %x, %X, %o)
> if we went that route. This seems like overkill for such a small
> change to functionality that hardly ever matters; plus, %x, %X and %o
> would continue to have problematic machine-dependent semantics and
> would not be sensibly extensible to bignums.
If it doesn't matter to you then why make the change/break at all? You
could just create a function bignum-to-hex-string.
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-24 4:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-23 19:12 bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers Paul Eggert
2018-07-23 19:48 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-23 19:49 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-23 23:30 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 1:20 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-24 2:04 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-24 2:44 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-24 4:15 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-23 23:39 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 1:16 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-25 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-25 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-27 3:20 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-24 4:49 ` Helmut Eller [this message]
2018-07-24 14:22 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 14:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-24 18:15 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-25 0:50 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-25 2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-25 17:21 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-25 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-26 7:44 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-26 8:04 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 8:16 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-25 6:58 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 7:59 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-26 8:43 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 9:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-26 9:39 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 9:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-26 9:40 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-26 9:56 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 16:55 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-26 17:16 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 17:50 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-26 18:35 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 21:07 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-25 0:54 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-25 8:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-25 20:16 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-25 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-25 23:33 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-26 7:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 16:26 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-25 10:08 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-26 12:52 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-26 12:54 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-26 17:18 ` Helmut Eller
2018-08-23 9:37 ` Helmut Eller
2022-07-04 1:03 ` bug#32252: i find binary-as-unsigned to be very helpful snickerbockers
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