Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>>  Minor annoyance is that evaluating most-negative-fixnum in *scratch*
>>  (Lisp Interaction mode) fails...

>     This bug is caused by calling `(downcase most-negative-fixnum)'
>     in `event-modifiers' called from `prin1-char'.

> The bug exists because the range of integers is greater
> and there are bits above the character flags.  So I put the
> change below into casefiddle.c.

I think downcase, etc should signal an error if an argument
is not character nor string.  This problem should be fixed
in prin1-char as I wrote in the previous mail.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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