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Contovounesios" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging bignum to master Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:28:02 +0300 Message-ID: <87o9e8oaot.fsf@tcd.ie> References: <877ekwu1mn.fsf@tromey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534022816 31928 195.159.176.226 (11 Aug 2018 21:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 21:26:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 11 23:26:52 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 1fobPQ-0008EP-07 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 23:26:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fobRW-0007Kp-Mj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 17:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52999) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fobQm-0007KY-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 17:28:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fobQj-0007xB-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 17:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lf1-x129.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::129]:35649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fobQj-0007st-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 17:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lf1-x129.google.com with SMTP id f18-v6so8847177lfc.2 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 14:28:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tcd-ie.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version; bh=ilSB+9tU5wFezgd0mXTWlmMLagZsY+evk1CJclt53V8=; b=w/XYUYI394oA3qhFRNpORPKzwzx2MSRQyFImh/1znIcRUW0Pv69eQ3iBIuMnKPgDWf /7eROSQ2+q+cyuPn2Cxgb74PSKetxtAbk6v7Ewpw17la60G4AZaBXshMcOktud1v3R5g uRz+J4IZAnwF/KZjyQBNOsPHnSD1q0bOwwARjbsoWZDO7rEeX7CV1O2wu+SLn4du8qiK F7Us+kBKfs308Mr50E4ePoN5Mk/U6eGE405q2ROMS3QMrN1sSq7D1JHnMHe4BmDegzR5 34sWjyztwffHGssWYmayNbtDBedr3bHhUlXjdJ8EmAutyNYCrlD8OSET4jRDNjiDT7Z5 WSsw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version; bh=ilSB+9tU5wFezgd0mXTWlmMLagZsY+evk1CJclt53V8=; b=jw+DzKR4/tVCRzmy538pgDJWYqghVczBcVQeNS+mCvekG6PDpq/jjG1IwELKFpdY1U 8MPnZtxOX8Z9kKFHG13Tq92/EM78QHSyc2OHvFlVIf2amI607RSSWSmWNhjoxJhQGfes vqvyl4N33qt1no6H86m0k3Oqxotp2hq6/NLhNHcjo0+r42u3+BRNWKhtqaLEmmks73rF m9sKX+gjoaRl1kwx7bZZEtthXhpnhGg0oerqupLW/pjZGN9ESox3Bk/oWbPaltRpFhaw Ar99yAFxQm3lsEKdRyQUWBQmI3CbMGSqn45SNLBmAKyXljQf/nQY0ILsDJZ/mZeDj21a b6JA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOUpUlFKzRPTMl3MwcwcCQ62pVXqRS22KTKc81yZIqaDfUWaA0w8aoJi 2nHzGSIfIEI3EBOZwYZlNQw73KLvrWE4Lw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA+uWPxCUjs+R7WMHN6uX1gsJ6GyG5E1njNIqLKUCLdWf/F0LF2LkhkQtTcjG4NBR/RWDyQO4mL/rA== X-Received: by 2002:a19:cd8c:: with SMTP id d134-v6mr4384213lfg.41.1534022890871; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 14:28:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (adsl-91.91.140.88.tellas.gr. [91.140.88.91]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m129-v6sm2561651lfe.50.2018.08.11.14.28.09 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sat, 11 Aug 2018 14:28:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877ekwu1mn.fsf@tromey.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Sat, 11 Aug 2018 13:47:12 -0600") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4864:20::129 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:228434 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Tom Tromey writes: > I'm merging bignum to master now Thank you and everyone who helped! > [...] Please report any problems you find. It'd be nice if expt could be updated to handle bignums: (let ((googol (expt 10 100))) (= googol (apply #'* (make-list 100 10)))) ; => nil There's also a missing full stop in `(elisp) Integer Basics': --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-diff Content-Disposition: inline; filename=bignum.diff diff --git a/doc/lispref/numbers.texi b/doc/lispref/numbers.texi index 89205f9df3..d5600e0806 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/numbers.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/numbers.texi @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Integer Basics Integers in Emacs Lisp can have arbitrary precision. Under the hood, though, there are two kinds of integers: smaller -ones, called @dfn{fixnums}, and larger ones, called @dfn{bignums} +ones, called @dfn{fixnums}, and larger ones, called @dfn{bignums}. Some functions in Emacs only accept fixnums. Also, while fixnums can always be compared for equality with @code{eq}, bignums require the use of @code{eql}. --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain -- Basil --=-=-=--