Re: Merging bignum to master

[Paul Eggert]

Pip Cet wrote:
> Is it intentional that int-forwarded variables are still limited to
> the fixnum range? In any case, we probably didn't want to rename
> XINTFWD to XFIXNUMFWD...

I think some C code does assume fixnum ranges for these variables, and would 
have to be inspected. Presumably we'd go to either intmax_t range or Emacs 
integers (fixnums or bignums), and that might need to be thought through in a 
case-by-case basis. In the meantime XFIXNUMFWD is probably a good name since 
that's effectively what the code does now.