From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 23:34:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <83bmecy6fx.fsf@gnu.org> <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> <42cbc5ab-2f02-4aa5-4b19-7b2357f91692@cs.ucla.edu> <1f58acbf-a7d8-bf4e-3d0e-a285515a22e6@cs.ucla.edu> <2549728d-8e40-b46a-009e-07cef0c24208@cs.ucla.edu> <63fdd138-77d3-89b9-aa69-490300f588a9@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1525318377 3646 195.159.176.226 (3 May 2018 03:32:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 03:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eller.helmut@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 03 05:32:53 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 1fE4zE-0000mZ-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2018 05:32:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fE51J-0004Pj-FP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2018 23:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fE50a-0004PN-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2018 23:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fE50Z-0007pm-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2018 23:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59521) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fE50U-0007mh-LE; Wed, 02 May 2018 23:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fE50U-0004tZ-1p; Wed, 02 May 2018 23:34:10 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 1 May 2018 14:45:38 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:225040 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > For Git checksums I'd want leading zeros without other decorations like > #x, since that's how Git itself prints those numbers and I'd prefer to > be compatible. That means the feature would need to specify the number of hex digits desired. Is that the case for all use of hex output? Is there any counterexample? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.