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bug#34792: 27.0.50; format %x and %X don't print as unsigned
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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bug#34792: 27.0.50; format %x and %X don't print as unsigned |
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Date: |
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 17:54:19 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
(Adding explicit cc:)
>> See etc/NEWS 'Numbers formatted via...'
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>> I don't understand the "bignums, a planned feature." in that entry.
>> It makes it sound like bignum will be implemented in future, but they
>> already are?
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>> Also the sense of the entry seems backwards, since binary-as-unsigned is
>> nil by default (but from editfns.c I see "it depends").
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>> Anyway, it seems like the doc the 'format' function wasn't updated.
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> Thanks! I should have thought to check NEWS.
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> I took the liberty for pushing a change to the docstring to master.
I think this area may still need some updating.
(It feels like it predates the addition of bignum support?)