From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, 32252@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 18:20:32 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1d1ee60-0396-4882-b13b-c6ad828d9467@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98bcda3b-bd15-4993-8544-7ddb842fb493@cs.ucla.edu>
> > 3. Why the change in the default behavior?
>
> The primary motivation is that the old behavior can't reasonably be
> extended to bignums. Also, it's long been an annoyance that the old
> behavior was machine dependent: (format "%x" -1) yields different
> answers depending on what machine you're running on. The proposed change
> would make this usage portable, and would make it obvious what bignums
> should do.
Put that motivation in NEWS. Users deserve to be told why
things change incompatibly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-24 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-23 19:12 bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers Paul Eggert
2018-07-23 19:48 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-23 19:49 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-23 23:30 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 1:20 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-07-24 2:04 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-24 2:44 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-24 4:15 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-23 23:39 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 1:16 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-25 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-25 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-27 3:20 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-24 4:49 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-24 14:22 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 14:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-24 18:15 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-25 0:50 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-25 2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-25 17:21 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-25 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-26 7:44 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-26 8:04 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 8:16 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-25 6:58 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 7:59 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-26 8:43 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 9:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-26 9:39 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 9:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-26 9:40 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-26 9:56 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 16:55 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-26 17:16 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 17:50 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-26 18:35 ` Helmut Eller
2018-07-26 21:07 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-25 0:54 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-25 8:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-25 20:16 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-25 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-25 23:33 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-26 7:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 16:26 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-25 10:08 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-26 12:52 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-26 12:54 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-26 17:18 ` Helmut Eller
2018-08-23 9:37 ` Helmut Eller
2022-07-04 1:03 ` bug#32252: i find binary-as-unsigned to be very helpful snickerbockers
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