From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Intervals crash Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:03:45 +0200 Message-ID: <83fwwztq4e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87aan82uar.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83bp7ouw2u.fsf@gnu.org> <87bp7n3c19.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83iq1vtv3y.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrqb1q2b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285322640 30410 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2010 10:04:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 24 12:03:58 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 1Oz58F-0001pm-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:03:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55985 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oz58F-000773-8R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39783 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oz586-00076x-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz584-0000Qw-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:03:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:41799) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz584-0000Qn-6w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:03:44 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L9800H00XA27E00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:03:42 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.203.3]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L9800G1YXA38OB0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:03:40 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87wrqb1q2b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:130742 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:52:28 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > If you really need the full range of size_t or EMACS_UINT, there's > > little you can do in practice. > > Practically speaking, Emacs doesn't ever *really* need the full range > of size_t, since Lisp can't represent it in a fixnum. It might be > nice to have a way to store them, but you can use conses of fixnums, > floats, or the occasionally-requested bignums for that. I didn't mean in APIs exposed to Lisp. I meant Emacs internals.