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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: aemoncannon@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Difficulties byte-compiling very large .el file
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:50:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19091.53277.453695.888871@parhasard.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo7hwsnocj.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>


 Ar an cúigiú lá is fiche de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Miles Bader: 

 > Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> writes:
 > > GNU Emacs has (IIRC) 27-bit integers on 32-bit platforms
 > 
 > ``The range of values for integers in Emacs Lisp is -268435456 to
 > 268435455 (29 bits; i.e., -2**28 to 2**28 - 1) on most machines.''

Thanks for the correction. Aemon’s problem remains, though, independent of
that. Is there a good reason you don’t error on encountering integers the
emacs binary can’t represent? Portable code needs to be prepared for that
anyway.

-- 
¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghe, que tuvo que huir
precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes?




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-25 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-19 21:49 Difficulties byte-compiling very large .el file Aemon Cannon
2009-08-20  8:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-20 13:07   ` Aemon Cannon
2009-08-20 13:23     ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-20 14:29       ` Aemon Cannon
2009-08-20 18:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-25 10:16 ` Aidan Kehoe
2009-08-25 11:07   ` Miles Bader
2009-08-25 11:50     ` Aidan Kehoe [this message]
2009-08-25 15:04       ` Aemon Cannon
2009-09-01 22:41         ` Aemon Cannon
2009-08-29  0:37   ` Stefan Monnier

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