From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Checking for loss of information on integer conversion
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:31:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi41kmto.fsf@trurl.irif.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1enn0n-0002Lv-EP@fencepost.gnu.org
> Adding real bignums probably would not be much more work than that.
> So IF we decide to do work in that area, let's add real bignums.
> GNU MP does the hard part.
> However, I'd rather prioritize progress in computing horizontal
> alignment and widths with variable-width fonts. That is something
> we really need.
I am tempted to argue that silently returning the wrong answer is a more
serious (but admittedly less visible) issue than minor cosmetic limitations
of the redisplay engine.
But who am I to argue?
-- Juliusz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-22 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-18 1:27 Checking for loss of information on integer conversion Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <83y3jq9q4m.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-02-18 20:04 ` bug#30408: " Paul Eggert
2018-02-18 20:04 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-18 20:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-09 5:00 ` bug#30408: " Paul Eggert
2018-03-09 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-21 19:13 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-21 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-18 20:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-18 21:52 ` Drew Adams
2018-03-27 23:19 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-29 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-29 18:09 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-18 22:31 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2018-02-18 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-18 23:46 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2018-02-19 1:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-19 2:22 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-19 3:20 ` Drew Adams
2018-02-19 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-02-22 16:31 ` Juliusz Chroboczek [this message]
2018-02-22 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-22 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-23 9:49 ` Richard Stallman
2018-02-19 6:03 ` John Wiegley
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