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Re: Intervals crash


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Intervals crash
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:10:19 +0200

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:34:08 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>  > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
>  > > Cc: address@hidden,
>  > >     address@hidden
>  > > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:52:28 +0900
>  > > 
>  > > Eli Zaretskii writes:
>  > > 
>  > >  > If you really need the full range of size_t or EMACS_UINT,
>  > >  > there's little you can do in practice.
>  > > Practically speaking, Emacs doesn't ever *really* need the full
>  > > range of size_t, since Lisp can't represent it in a fixnum.  It
>  > > might be nice to have a way to store them, but you can use conses
>  > > of fixnums, floats, or the occasionally-requested bignums for
>  > > that.
>  > 
>  > I didn't mean in APIs exposed to Lisp.  I meant Emacs internals.
> 
> What makes you think I don't understand that?

And what makes you think I need a paternalistic lecture about demerits
of unsigned data types?  You already had your chance once, and I let
it go.  Why do you think I deserve it twice in a row?



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