Re: Add more supported primitives in libgccjit IR (was: Shrinking the C core)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

> For such a trivial example, yes, and probably for slightly more complex 
> examples too.  But in general, no.  Take this equally trivial example:
>
> (setq a most-positive-fixnum)
> (setq a (1+ a))
>
> The 'a' object was an integer, and became a bignum.

I understand. I doubt that Emacs native compiler checks this far.
However, such checks are definitely doable - integer bounds are not
unknown and can certainly be handled.

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