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: Some vars now limited to fixnum size. (Was: Merging bignum to master) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:38:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877ekwu1mn.fsf@tromey.com> <611579fd-52f2-0104-ef82-a7a4a3929700@cs.ucla.edu> <878t51t32a.fsf_-_@red-bean.com> <28fcabff-d102-d67f-442f-f59eab5040c9@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 1534823104 21431 195.159.176.226 (21 Aug 2018 03:45:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 03:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, tom@tromey.com, pipcet@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 05:45:00 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 1frxbG-0005S3-Of for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2018 05:44:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50531 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxdN-0005R3-Am for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:47:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxVf-0006Ev-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxVZ-0002Nu-G3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxUq-000156-Tr; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1frxUq-0003tG-OW; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:38:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <28fcabff-d102-d67f-442f-f59eab5040c9@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:54:21 -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:228776 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. ]]] > It would be better to fix nthcdr so that it works on bignums, and similarly for I think that is wasted effort. If n is a bignum, how many years would it take for nthcdr to return? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)