From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Intervals crash Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:52:28 +0900 Message-ID: <87wrqb1q2b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87aan82uar.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83bp7ouw2u.fsf@gnu.org> <87bp7n3c19.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83iq1vtv3y.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285320086 19834 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2010 09:21:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 24 11:21:25 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 1Oz4T6-0006Xo-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:21:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32826 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oz4NH-0004jM-RA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54398 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oz4IP-0002TD-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz48e-0007I8-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.254.161]:40564) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz48b-0007HU-W6; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:00:14 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss71 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147172AF543; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:00:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.97.223]) by imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056452AF542; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:00:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CF13FA04C8; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:00:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5A6ED1A25CE; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:52:28 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <83iq1vtv3y.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130740 Archived-At: 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.