Re: Emacs geometry

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Does this give correct results?
>> 
>> printf ("top: %d, left: %d", XINT (XCDR (Fassq (Qtop, foo))),
>> XINT (XCDR (Fassq (Qleft, foo))));

> Yes, this prints the correct values.  Thanks!  Is there a general rule
> about when to call XINT?

If you compile with -DUSE_LISP_UNION_TYPE the compiler will tell you,


        Stefan


PS: Lisp_Object is often represented by an integer for efficiency reasons
    (i.e. because C compilers don't implement word-sized structs and unions
    efficiently enough), but that doesn't have to be the case.