From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:25:04 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87vd6e4ksf.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8739ti68sz.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284071125 5117 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2010 22:25:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 22:25:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 00:25:24 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 1OtpYZ-0007QZ-O2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:25:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57308 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtpYZ-0002Y1-3H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51233 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OtpYT-0002Xw-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtpYQ-0003xK-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtpYQ-0003x5-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtpYN-0007Jm-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:25:11 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:25:11 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:25:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ViI0W0DsBuWMJ608ILPiU3k5f5A= 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:129839 Archived-At: On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:58:01 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> I think it's a good idea. We've seen IMAP article numbers overflow >> native Emacs ints at least once and it's been discussed a few times, e.g.: >> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65390/match=overflow >> >> so maybe this API needs to support true 32-bit ints (perhaps through >> doubles) as per RFC 3501. LMI> Well, I was thinking that the range things would just have normal Elisp LMI> ints in them (like they do now), so having the ranges in C wouldn't LMI> actually solve that problem. I meant "while you're in there..." :) but it's not a significant need compared to the other issues with Gnus you're targeting. So never mind. Ted