From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preview: portable dumper Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:30:45 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <1ad17d67-51fa-19f7-b6f3-2bcfdabe327f@cs.ucla.edu> References: <047a67ec-9e29-7e4e-0fb0-24c3e59b5886@dancol.org> <83zikjxt1j.fsf@gnu.org> <8360n6ruzu.fsf@gnu.org> <834m2nplmb.fsf@gnu.org> <83inr2oje6.fsf@gnu.org> <83bmwuogfb.fsf@gnu.org> <878trydrbo.fsf@red-bean.com> <87d15jo39q.fsf@ritchie.wxcvbn.org> <26497701-9de7-b91e-7ac3-4fb5949b436e@dancol.org> <496410d6-a0ba-769c-69a7-df4b7bb3bdf3@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518733836 26046 195.159.176.226 (15 Feb 2018 22:30:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:30:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 To: Daniel Colascione , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 15 23:30:31 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1emS2a-0005C9-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:30:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emS4c-0008A4-5k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:32:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emS3K-00079s-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:30:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emS3G-0007kz-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:40968) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1emS3G-0007fh-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:30:50 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A520E1616AE; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:30:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id l9FS9vZ9GX2F; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:30:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C131616B2; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:30:45 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id RgvE1O9W6pg0; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:30:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 692F61616AE; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:30:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <496410d6-a0ba-769c-69a7-df4b7bb3bdf3@dancol.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222778 Archived-At: On 02/15/2018 02:13 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: > I'm tempted to just convert INTEGER_TO_CONS to a pair of functions > (one signed, one unsigned) that just take an {,u}intmax_t. Sometimes one does not know whether an integer is signed. For example, the ino_t type is signed on some platforms, and not on others. This is why INTEGER_CONS is written the way it is: it is supposed to do the right thing regardless of the signedness of its argument.