From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 14:15:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0f632217-27ad-4f54-8ce0-480301fa2a86@cs.ucla.edu> <83pnxorm37.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536430454 16002 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2018 18:14:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 18:14:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 20:14:10 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 1fyhkI-00044Y-G3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 20:14:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyhmO-00017n-Tr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 14:16:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47191) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyhlj-0000mD-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 14:15:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyhli-000313-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 14:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43077 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyhli-0002w4-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 14:15:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fyhjY-0003Dz-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 20:13:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 7 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/VxSdbI9e3qF5LBLw7pp7SUSk5M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:229509 Archived-At: > encode-char could potentially return a value that cannot be > represented as a fixnum. Can this still happen? When? Stefan