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Mon, 23 Jul 2018 21:49:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:39:08 -0700") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:148880 Archived-At: 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