>From eb2fa1a00c5c85aced40900b59183dc03d822958 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:52:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Tell user about read-integer-overflow-as-float * src/lread.c (string_to_number): Suggest read-integer-overflow-as-float in signal message. Suggested by Stefan Monnier (Bug#31118#58). --- src/lread.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/lread.c b/src/lread.c index 6eda740540..16e34aff0c 100644 --- a/src/lread.c +++ b/src/lread.c @@ -3797,7 +3797,12 @@ string_to_number (char const *string, int base, int flags) value = n; if (! (state & DOT_CHAR) && ! (flags & S2N_OVERFLOW_TO_FLOAT)) - xsignal1 (Qoverflow_error, build_string (string)); + { + AUTO_STRING (fmt, ("%s is out of fixnum range; " + "maybe set `read-integer-overflow-as-float'?")); + xsignal1 (Qoverflow_error, + CALLN (Fformat_message, fmt, build_string (string))); + } } /* Either the number uses float syntax, or it does not fit into a fixnum. -- 2.14.3