Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails

[Luc Teirlinck]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

   I can't reproduce your problem: I did

       > emacs -q --no-site-file
       most-negative-fixnum
       C-x C-e

   and it returned "-268435456 = ?\C-@".  The right hand side of the return
   value is indeed incorrect (that's a bug), but it's still not the problem
   you're experiencing.
   Could you give a recipe to reproduce your problem?

I can reproduce the problem.  I do exactly what you did above and get:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range #^[t nil 0 1 ...
event-modifiers(-268435456)
prin1-char(-268435456)
eval-last-sexp-print-value(-268435456)
eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
eval-last-sexp(nil)
call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)

Error or no error might be machine dependent.

Sincerely,

Luc.