From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Juliusz Chroboczek Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checking for loss of information on integer conversion Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:31:47 +0100 Message-ID: <87zi41kmto.fsf@trurl.irif.fr> References: <7432641a-cedc-942c-d75c-0320fce5ba39@cs.ucla.edu> <87woza7wwi.fsf@trurl.irif.fr> <87sh9x97yz.fsf@trurl.irif.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519317056 5962 195.159.176.226 (22 Feb 2018 16:30:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:30:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 22 17:30:52 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 1eotlh-000135-Ma for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:30:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eotnk-0003sO-44 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:32:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36986) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eotms-0003ri-4U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:32:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eotmn-0007uk-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:32:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42403 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eotmm-0007tF-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:31:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eotkh-0004Wj-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:29:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:HIjz76A2LEqPzWFcVLoPDTv8XSA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:222989 Archived-At: > 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