From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checking for loss of information on integer conversion Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:49:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7432641a-cedc-942c-d75c-0320fce5ba39@cs.ucla.edu> <87woza7wwi.fsf@trurl.irif.fr> <87sh9x97yz.fsf@trurl.irif.fr> <87zi41kmto.fsf@trurl.irif.fr> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519379261 30979 195.159.176.226 (23 Feb 2018 09:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juliusz Chroboczek Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 23 10:47:37 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ep9x1-0007bK-MS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:47:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ep9z3-0004X1-Tb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58831) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ep9yb-0004LN-Rw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:49:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ep9ya-0008FE-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55740) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ep9yX-0008CN-TO; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ep9yX-0000bt-8m; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:49:09 -0500 In-reply-to: <87zi41kmto.fsf@trurl.irif.fr> (message from Juliusz Chroboczek on Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:31:47 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223001 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I am tempted to argue that silently returning the wrong answer is a more > serious (but admittedly less visible) issue That's a bug and we should fix it, but I don't expect it to require big changes. Adding any sort of bignums is a big change. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.