From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: integer overflow Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:33:51 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com><4B83682D.5010804@gnu.org> <87vddmpw4s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hbp2fwoi.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrxrr4md.fsf@gnu.org><3vsk8ecg6a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <873a0euot4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267912473 20377 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2010 21:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" , "'Helmut Eller'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 06 22:54:28 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 1No1ZM-0005BF-Bk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:29:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nnwxc-0002uu-Gv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:34:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NnwxX-0002uf-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:34:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59555 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NnwxV-0002uX-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnwxU-00084k-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:34:33 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:27945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnwxU-00084d-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:34:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o26GYSOF024863 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 6 Mar 2010 16:34:29 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o26GYQmK007847; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 16:34:26 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt004.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 63841311267893226; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:33:46 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.160.53) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:33:46 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Thread-Index: Acq9RCRsW1HVos1hTnyKfpjSEuJ9tgABJbAg X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4B928413.0180:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 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:121693 > There are many cases where it's important to read an integer > from some other program, so it's important to be able to read > integers larger the Elisp's largest fixnum (tho less so for > integers larger than the host system's natural "int"). > Examples are file sizes, process ids, user ids, ... Lisp (MacLisp) invented bignums 40+ years ago. Maybe it's time... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bignum