From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Doug Lewan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Inconsistency: sometimes an integer, sometimes a float Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:39:45 +0000 Message-ID: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9852FE8FB5@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> References: <4ce73e74-a069-4e8d-b606-5aa76b848940@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390574407 24089 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2014 14:40:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:40:07 +0000 (UTC) To: djc , "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 24 15:40:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6hva-0003hw-3J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:40:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6hvZ-0005RR-Iz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:40:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37403) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6hvH-0005P3-KJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:40:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6hv7-00032N-RW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:39:55 -0500 Original-Received: from webmail.shubertorg.com ([207.246.209.200]:52489) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6hv7-00031U-O8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:39:45 -0500 Original-Received: from dakiya1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) by DAKIYA1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) with mapi id 14.01.0438.000; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:39:45 -0500 Thread-Topic: Inconsistency: sometimes an integer, sometimes a float Thread-Index: AQHPGE3GRPIXZfNTXE67l7ZUWwZFv5qT8zlw In-Reply-To: <4ce73e74-a069-4e8d-b606-5aa76b848940@googlegroups.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.0.21.202] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 X-Received-From: 207.246.209.200 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95617 Archived-At: Cool bug! How in the world did you find it? FYI emacs 24.3.1 on AIX 6.1, power pc architecture has this bug, but not on= CYGWIN. ,Douglas Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 Of course, shells have one feature that no other language has: subshells. > -----Original Message----- > From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=3Dshubertticketing.com@gnu.org > [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=3Dshubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of djc > Sent: Thursday, 2014 January 23 05:39 > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Subject: Inconsistency: sometimes an integer, sometimes a float >=20 > "(/ 536870911 1000000)" is an integer. >=20 > "(/ 536870912 1000000)" is a float. >=20 > I know why, but it's still unpleasant to have to program around it. I > suppose this begs the question of when there will be a supported 64-bit > release of Emacs. >=20 > GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) >=20 > djc