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Re: Floating-point constant folding in Emacs byte compiler


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Floating-point constant folding in Emacs byte compiler
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:29:42 +0300

> From: Pip Cet <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:23:15 +0000
> Cc: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> But is this really a problem for any actual code? Good code shouldn't
> depend on more than the 30 bits Emacs guarantees

IMO, it is no longer reasonable nowadays to require "good code" to be
limited to 30 bits.  Most people use 64-bit platforms, and those who
don't should be able to run the code with some run-time penalty, but
without overflows, errors, and any similar calamities.



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