From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Antipov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: immediate strings Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:30:05 +0400 Message-ID: <4ED0F7ED.8050700@yandex.ru> References: <4ED04BBC.70803@yandex.ru> <4ED09DD4.1090201@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322317798 13883 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2011 14:29:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:29:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 26 15:29:55 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 1RUJGK-0006p5-UD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:29:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RUJGK-0000tW-Fa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:29:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49837) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RUJGI-0000tP-Sk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:29:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RUJGH-0007TT-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:29:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:37913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RUJGG-0007TH-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:29:48 -0500 Original-Received: by bke17 with SMTP id 17so6491818bke.0 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:29:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.204.15.75 with SMTP id j11mr15707250bka.25.1322317787673; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:29:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.171] ([78.153.153.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hy13sm21805907bkc.0.2011.11.26.06.29.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:29:47 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111115 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <4ED09DD4.1090201@cs.ucla.edu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.214.41 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:146258 Archived-At: On 11/26/2011 12:05 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Does the proposed implementation arbitrary restrict > string length to be 1/2 of their current limit? > I assume this could be fixed somehow, without too > much trouble. IIUC, string length can't be larger than most positive Lisp integer, which is smaller than BITS_PER_EMACS_INT - 1 size bitfield anyway. Dmitry