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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Intervals crash
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:52:28 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrqb1q2b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iq1vtv3y.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii writes:

 > If you really need the full range of size_t or EMACS_UINT, there's
 > little you can do in practice.

Practically speaking, Emacs doesn't ever *really* need the full range
of size_t, since Lisp can't represent it in a fixnum.  It might be
nice to have a way to store them, but you can use conses of fixnums,
floats, or the occasionally-requested bignums for that.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-23 18:23 Intervals crash Chong Yidong
2010-09-23 18:52 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-23 19:01   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-23 19:09     ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-23 19:32       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-23 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-24  6:12   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-24  8:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-24  8:52       ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-09-24 10:03         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-25 14:34           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-25 16:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-25 18:54               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-25 22:07                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-26 13:08                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-26 19:22                     ` Miles Bader
2010-09-26 19:33                       ` David Kastrup
2010-09-27  4:53                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-27  6:55                         ` David Kastrup
2010-09-27  7:42                           ` Jan Djärv
2010-09-27  8:34                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-27  9:02                               ` David Kastrup
2010-09-27 11:02                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-27  8:36                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-27  8:50                           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-27  9:39                             ` David Kastrup
2010-09-27  9:45                               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 10:11                               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-24 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii

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