From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, tom@tromey.com, pipcet@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:38:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1frxUq-0003tG-OW@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28fcabff-d102-d67f-442f-f59eab5040c9@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:54:21 -0700)
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> It would be better to fix nthcdr so that it works on bignums, and similarly for
I think that is wasted effort. If n is a bignum, how many years would
it take for nthcdr to return?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-21 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-11 19:47 Merging bignum to master Tom Tromey
2018-08-11 21:28 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-12 16:34 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 12:21 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-14 0:21 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-15 23:41 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-16 15:38 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-08-19 8:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-17 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 6:29 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-12 8:09 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-12 17:21 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-12 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 19:30 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-13 0:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-12 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 23:53 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-13 0:20 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 7:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-08-13 8:06 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-08-13 9:14 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-14 23:09 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16 2:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-13 23:31 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-14 1:41 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16 2:41 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-16 19:31 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-16 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-12 7:37 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-12 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 11:48 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-12 16:02 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 22:58 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-14 1:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-14 13:04 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-14 18:01 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 15:20 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-15 16:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 23:57 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-16 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-20 16:28 ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master) Karl Fogel
2018-08-20 16:54 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 17:27 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 19:55 ` Pip Cet
2018-08-20 23:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-21 15:01 ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size Tom Tromey
2018-08-21 16:36 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-21 18:46 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-22 15:39 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-21 3:38 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-08-21 4:09 ` Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master) Paul Eggert
2018-08-22 4:03 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 4:53 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-20 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-14 0:51 ` Merging bignum to master Andy Moreton
2018-08-15 15:46 ` Andy Moreton
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