From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Intervals crash Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:33:30 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <874odcti45.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87aan82uar.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83bp7ouw2u.fsf@gnu.org> <87bp7n3c19.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83iq1vtv3y.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrqb1q2b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83fwwztq4e.fsf@gnu.org> <87sk0x28pr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83y6aprehh.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbhd1wn4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83vd5tqxyp.fsf@gnu.org> <87eicg1wl5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <878w2o1fa3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285529636 7061 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2010 19:33:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:33:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 26 21:33:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozwyr-0006D7-NY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:33:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ozwyr-0003QI-6P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59288 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ozwyj-0003Od-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:33:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozwyh-0007UJ-Sw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozwyh-0007UD-HF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:33:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozwyg-0006Ai-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:33:38 +0200 Original-Received: from p508eb87c.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.184.124]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:33:38 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508eb87c.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:33:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508eb87c.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zzKvSxXfWXdp+59jMpoxUMF9cUA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130937 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: >> Quite the opposite. I'm speaking from pure experience: it worked very >> well for XEmacs. I happen to have a good memory for theoretical >> arguments, so I passed them on. I'm sorry that offended you. > > "unsigned good or evil" is such a hoary old religious issue that any > unasked-for advocacy is likely to get you lumped in with the freaks, > simply out of habit on the part of the listener... That gained bit of range turns out to be worth the pain rather rarely. Since Emacs integers are _signed_ anyway, I have severe doubts that EMACS_UINT will actually _ever_ give us an extended range that is not defective to start with. The Emacs data structure from which it is made _is_ signed. -- David Kastrup