From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: integer overflow Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:51:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B83682D.5010804@gnu.org> <87vddmpw4s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hbp2fwoi.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrxrr4md.fsf@gnu.org> <3vsk8ecg6a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <873a0euot4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267962822 28957 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2010 11:53:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eller.helmut@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 07 08:51:42 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 1NoBH3-00089s-S7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:51:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44697 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoBH3-000089-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:51:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NoBGy-000081-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:51:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50858 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoBGy-00007t-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:51:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NoBGv-0005pG-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:51:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:34029) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NoBGv-0005pA-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:51:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoBGt-0004Xd-Qx; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:51:31 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:45:12 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:121684 Archived-At: There are many cases where it's important to read an integer from some other program, so it's important to be able to read integers larger the Elisp's largest fixnum (tho less so for integers larger than the host system's natural "int"). Examples are file sizes, process ids, user ids, ... Would it make sense to set up a variable to control this? You could bind it to t for those special cases.