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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Checking for loss of information on integer conversion
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:31:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi41kmto.fsf@trurl.irif.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1enn0n-0002Lv-EP@fencepost.gnu.org

> Adding real bignums probably would not be much more work than that.
> So IF we decide to do work in that area, let's add real bignums.
> GNU MP does the hard part.

> However, I'd rather prioritize progress in computing horizontal
> alignment and widths with variable-width fonts.  That is something
> we really need.

I am tempted to argue that silently returning the wrong answer is a more
serious (but admittedly less visible) issue than minor cosmetic limitations
of the redisplay engine.

But who am I to argue?

-- Juliusz




  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-22 16:31 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
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 [this message]
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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