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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: integer overflow handling for most-negative-fixnum |
| Date: | Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:17:24 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I'd like it to read #x3fffffffffffffff as -1.
That won't work once we have bignums. Even now, it'd be problematic behavior on 32-bit machines. We should insulate Lisp programmers from fixnum width as much as possible.
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