From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8525: Lisp reader and string-to-number bugs and inconsistencies Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:43:30 -0300 Message-ID: References: <4DAEA71A.3090503@cs.ucla.edu> <4DB08E1F.9090206@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303621659 4951 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2011 05:07:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:07:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8525@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 24 07:07:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QDrXi-00075I-OW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:07:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38928 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDrXh-0000ei-SO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:07:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDrXf-0000ed-F3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDrXe-0003fp-Hw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDrXe-0003fl-Es for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QDrAw-0008VM-By; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:44:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8525 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8525-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8525.130362022632664 (code B ref 8525); Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8525) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Apr 2011 04:43:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QDrAf-0008Um-JN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:43:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QDrAY-0008UU-Il for 8525@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: from 213-159-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.159.213]:41627 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDrAS-0002OQ-PI; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 28ACF6618A; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:43:30 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: <4DB08E1F.9090206@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:05:51 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:44:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45959 Archived-At: > * It's easy to use floats for huge base-10 numbers, but there's no > portable and accurate way to convert huge non-base-10 values to > floats. This patch still signals overflow for cases like > (string-to-number "ffffffffffffffffffffffffff" 16) where the integer > cannot be represented as a 64-bit number. This is the best we can That's perfectly fine. Stefan