From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging bignum to master Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:01:41 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <877ekwu1mn.fsf@tromey.com> <611579fd-52f2-0104-ef82-a7a4a3929700@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534270388 11361 195.159.176.226 (14 Aug 2018 18:13:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 18:13:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cc: tom@tromey.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Pip Cet Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 14 20:13:04 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 1fpdoV-0002sn-Ki for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:13:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45524 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpdqb-0008Iy-MM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 14:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46716) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpdeA-0004tz-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 14:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpddc-0001At-Mt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 14:02:22 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:43388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpddc-0001An-Ef for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 14:01:48 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB58D160CF7; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id jSQq0TZ1BT1P; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462EE160DFC; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id YxQ_ZRo16ITo; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.30.119]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E8569160CF7; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:01:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:228534 Archived-At: Pip Cet wrote: > Is it intentional that int-forwarded variables are still limited to > the fixnum range? In any case, we probably didn't want to rename > XINTFWD to XFIXNUMFWD... I think some C code does assume fixnum ranges for these variables, and would have to be inspected. Presumably we'd go to either intmax_t range or Emacs integers (fixnums or bignums), and that might need to be thought through in a case-by-case basis. In the meantime XFIXNUMFWD is probably a good name since that's effectively what the code does now.