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Re: Intervals crash


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Intervals crash
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:03:45 +0200

> 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.



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