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Re: Removing some workarounds for big integers
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Andy Moreton |
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Re: Removing some workarounds for big integers |
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Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:57:19 +0100 |
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On Mon 20 Aug 2018, Philipp wrote:
> Hi,
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> now that Emacs has big integers, would it make sense to remove some of
> the workarounds for lack of big integer support that are still present?
> Specifically, the ‘make_fixnum_or_float’ and ‘INTEGER_TO_CONS’ macros.
> A replacement that would generate a fixnum or bignum depending on the
> input value seems strictly superior. (It would require a bit more
> memory, but I don’t think memory pressure is an issue here.)
Yes, but that requires identifying all of the callers, and converting
them to support bignums. All fixable, but work to be done.
AndyM