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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | bug#8525: Lisp reader and string-to-number bugs and inconsistencies |
| Date: | Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:43:30 -0300 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> * It's easy to use floats for huge base-10 numbers, but there's no
> portable and accurate way to convert huge non-base-10 values to
> floats. This patch still signals overflow for cases like
> (string-to-number "ffffffffffffffffffffffffff" 16) where the integer
> cannot be represented as a 64-bit number. This is the best we can
That's perfectly fine.
Stefan
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