From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Checking for loss of information on integer conversion
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 23:31:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woza7wwi.fsf@trurl.irif.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7432641a-cedc-942c-d75c-0320fce5ba39@cs.ucla.edu
> Second, although Emacs still reads large integers like
> 18446744073709551616 as if they were floating-point, it now signals an
> error if information is lost in the process.
That's better, but still horrible.
> Another possibility would be for Emacs to signal an error when reading any
> integer that does not fit in fixnum bounds.
Please do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-18 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-18 1:27 Checking for loss of information on integer conversion Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <83y3jq9q4m.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-02-18 20:04 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-18 20:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-18 21:52 ` bug#30408: " Drew Adams
2018-02-18 22:31 ` Juliusz Chroboczek [this message]
2018-02-18 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-18 23:46 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2018-02-19 1:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-19 2:22 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-19 3:20 ` Drew Adams
2018-02-19 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-02-22 16:31 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2018-02-22 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-22 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-23 9:49 ` Richard Stallman
2018-02-19 6:03 ` John Wiegley
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