From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Your changes in revision 106240 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:31:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d3df8qod.fsf@gnu.org> <4EACBA10.9010007@cs.ucla.edu> <4EACE96E.9070800@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319956309 4257 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2011 06:31:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 30 07:31:43 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1RKOvm-0006fk-U2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:31:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKOvm-0004O8-CX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51387) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKOvj-0004Nr-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:31:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKOvi-0006LN-FQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:31:39 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:53988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKOvi-0006LI-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:31:38 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p9U6VSo6025497; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:31:28 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B7D8158E17; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:31:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4EACE96E.9070800@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:06:38 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4025=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9286 : core <4025> : streams <696652> : uri <995198> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145792 Archived-At: >> 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