bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers

[Robert Pluim]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> On Jul 26 2018, Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Because Emacs Lisp was very successful without bignums.
>
> The lack of bignums requires workarounds like the first two elements of
> (current-time) or the 11th and 12th element of (file-attributes).

Not to mention having to represent IP addresses as vectors, thus
forcing operations on them to be byte by byte.