Re: macro FIXNUM_OVERFLOW_P in lisp.h is valid ?

[Toru TSUNEYOSHI]

From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

> No.  The cast inside make_fixnum_or_float is to EMACS_INT, not to
> `int'.  

Sorry, I misunderstood. :<

>         On 64-bit platforms, EMACS_INT is a 64-bit type, so casting a
> `double' to EMACS_INT does not lose any precision.  Casting an
> EMACS_INT to a `double' will cause loss of significant digits in the
> EMACS_INT value.

OK.

BTW, how does Emacs on 64-bit platforms eval the following expressions?

    (string-to-number "1152921504606846975") ; 2^60 - 1
    =>                1.1529215046068467e+018 ; on 32-bit platforms

On 64-bit platforms, string-to-number should return the number as type
`EMACS_INT' (= `LONG'), I think.

Although, the code of string-to-number (Fstring_to_number) deals with
the number as type `double' (of variable `v').

So type `double' can't properly deal with (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) least
significant digits of the number, I think.

    #define make_fixnum_or_float(val) \
       (FIXNUM_OVERFLOW_P (val) \
        ? make_float (val) \
        : make_number ((EMACS_INT)(val)))

In this code, FIXNUM_OVERFLOW_P (val) will returns 0.
Then Emacs processes `make_number ((EMACS_INT)(val)))'.
On that time, `val' is casted from type `double' to `EMACS_INT'.
At last, can string-to-number return all digits of the number
1152921504606846975 properly?

I guessed it can't.
That is the reason why I made my former patch.