Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Well, although I admit I most often use hexadecimal numbers to represent
  > machine addresses (including on 64-bit addresses, of course), I also use
  > them to represent memory offsets.

I think that implies we need a way to specify for %x to use the proper
width for an address on the machine in use.

  >   I only bring this up because this is
  > a case when a negative hexadecimal number (-#x1000 or -0x1000) is a more
  > useful representation than two's complement.

If it's useful in Emacs, we should support that.  But we may as well take
stock of the need before deciding whether to implement this.

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