From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 8525@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8525: Lisp reader and string-to-number bugs and inconsistencies
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:08:23 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfwpdrs0d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DAEA71A.3090503@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:27:54 -0700")
> Emacs has several problems when converting strings to numbers:
Yes, they're mostly known.
> I plan to install the following patch to fix these problems, after
Looks pretty good, thanks.
> To fix (2), it's plausible to change the code in one of two ways:
> either silently treat large integers as floats, or signal an overflow.
We want to use floats rather than signal an overflow (this is evident
from the history of the code since the conversion to floats was added
somewhat recently).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-20 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-20 9:27 bug#8525: Lisp reader and string-to-number bugs and inconsistencies Paul Eggert
2011-04-20 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-20 13:08 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-04-21 20:05 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-24 4:43 ` Stefan Monnier
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