Re: Type-error in C code

[Julien Danjou]

On Fri, Nov 12 2010, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Hi Eli,

> Yes, you are wrong.  You should only use XSETFASTINT if you know the
> value will not overflow a Lisp integer.
> 
> In a nutshell, nothing can work around the basic limitation that only
> integer values smaller or equal to most-positive-fixnum can be put
> into a Lisp integer.

Ok, I did not know that. So XSETFASTINT is really to be fast, not to be
bigger. Thanks for the explanation.

OTOH, x_fill_property_data deals with floats too, so using a float here
sounds like a good solution, as you suggested.

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Julien Danjou
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