From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging bignum to master Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:00:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877ekwu1mn.fsf@tromey.com> <611579fd-52f2-0104-ef82-a7a4a3929700@cs.ucla.edu> <86mutngp49.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534456763 4196 195.159.176.226 (16 Aug 2018 21:59:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:59:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 16 23:59:19 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 1fqQIZ-0000ya-Cw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 23:59:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqQKf-0002hX-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39517) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqQJx-0002hD-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqQJu-0007ih-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35056 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fqQJu-0007hL-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fqQHf-0008I9-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 23:58:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:s+yuf4aSeT7kGdFbUIibRNg2hh4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:228611 Archived-At: > XFIXNUMFWD might not be pretty, but it does convey the idea that this is > code that only understands fixnums (the same as pre-bignum emacs), and > will need careful inspection before modifying it to support bignums. IIRC, the forwarding names are based on the C names (BOOLFWD, INTFWD, OBJFWD), so I don't think "bignum" would make much sense. Stefan