From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:43:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <83bmecy6fx.fsf@gnu.org> <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524400972 15663 195.159.176.226 (22 Apr 2018 12:42:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 12:42:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 22 14:42:47 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 1fAEKM-0003ve-CO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:42:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55181 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fAEMR-0003Lr-Bk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 08:44:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57379) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fAELm-0003LZ-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 08:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fAELi-0005JR-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 08:44:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50399 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fAELh-0005J7-VU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 08:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fAEJW-0002ye-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:41:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ndMQq+CMHy+Q0MeAJvBZyKt+we0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:224786 Archived-At: On Sat, Apr 21 2018, Paul Eggert wrote: > Surely we should just add bignum support to existing functions +, -, > etc. I'm not so sure of that. E.g. (format "%x" -1) => "3fffffffffffffff". That doesn't make any sense on if -1 is a bignum. Helmut