From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: issues with recent doprnt-related changes Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 07:41:42 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4DC408A6.4080406@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4DB50AB9.6060100@cs.ucla.edu> <83tydmaeo3.fsf@gnu.org> <4DB65FF1.5010003@cs.ucla.edu> <83aafb8p4a.fsf@gnu.org> <4DB8ABEA.3080503@cs.ucla.edu> <4DB9146D.2040702@cs.ucla.edu> <4DB9E5FF.9020506@cs.ucla.edu> <83d3k571ee.fsf@gnu.org> <4DC10012.8020809@cs.ucla.edu> <4DC1692B.1090101@cs.ucla.edu> <83ei4cnau6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304692920 13231 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2011 14:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 8545@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 06 16:41:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QIME1-0007HQ-R7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 16:41:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60627 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIME1-0007N7-DD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 10:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52459) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIMDy-0007Mg-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 10:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIMDx-0006Nd-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 10:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:60665) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIMDw-0006NA-OE; Fri, 06 May 2011 10:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27EA839E8113; Fri, 6 May 2011 07:41:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XKgLHwn3WpYK; Fri, 6 May 2011 07:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C73ED39E810D; Fri, 6 May 2011 07:41:42 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139176 Archived-At: On 05/06/11 06:33, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'm not sure I understand the details more than you do. AFAIK the > MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM limit only comes into play when the number goes > through Lisp_Object somewhere. And we never show "length, including > terminating nul-byte" to Elisp, so the nul-byte shouldn't matter: while > the C array will have size MOST_POSITIVE_FIXNUM + 1, this will only be > represented in EMACS_INT which can accommodate it just fine. First, you say you're not sure you understand the details; then, you explain the situation perfectly! :-) Thanks.