From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 34792@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#34792: 27.0.50; format %x and %X don't print as unsigned
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 17:54:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzy35nu09w.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9DBA5B35-1F73-457B-8ADE-A495CB326F17@gmail.com> (Ivan Andrus's message of "Sat, 9 Mar 2019 11:48:51 -0700")
(Adding explicit cc:)
>> See etc/NEWS 'Numbers formatted via...'
>>
>> I don't understand the "bignums, a planned feature." in that entry.
>> It makes it sound like bignum will be implemented in future, but they
>> already are?
>>
>> Also the sense of the entry seems backwards, since binary-as-unsigned is
>> nil by default (but from editfns.c I see "it depends").
>>
>> Anyway, it seems like the doc the 'format' function wasn't updated.
>
> Thanks! I should have thought to check NEWS.
>
> I took the liberty for pushing a change to the docstring to master.
I think this area may still need some updating.
(It feels like it predates the addition of bignum support?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-09 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-09 0:58 bug#34792: 27.0.50; format %x and %X don't print as unsigned Ivan Andrus
2019-03-09 2:03 ` Glenn Morris
2019-03-09 18:48 ` Ivan Andrus
2019-03-09 22:54 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2019-03-11 6:49 ` Paul Eggert
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