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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Your changes in revision 106240
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:31:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpqhfm1pu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EACE96E.9070800@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:06:38 -0700")

>> But this has nothing to do with EMACS_INT.
> Actually, there's a direct connection to EMACS_INT.

I don't see it.

> That integer gives an upper bound on the length of the list FOUND.

Right.

> Emacs list lengths fit into EMACS_INT, not int,

That's not relevant: this argument is not bound to match the length of
some arbitrary list, instead it specifies the maximum size of the list
to build.  So it could be `char' or `short' and that would work just as well.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-30  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-29 20:54 Your changes in revision 106240 Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-30  2:44 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-30  5:06   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-30  6:06     ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-30  6:28       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-30  6:31       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-10-30  7:15         ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-30  7:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-31  6:23             ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-30  8:07           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-31  6:28             ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-30  6:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-30  7:04       ` Paul Eggert

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