Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/15/2018 02:13 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> I'm tempted to just convert INTEGER_TO_CONS to a pair of functions 
> (one signed, one unsigned) that just take an {,u}intmax_t. 

Sometimes one does not know whether an integer is signed. For example, 
the ino_t type is signed on some platforms, and not on others. This is 
why INTEGER_CONS is written the way it is: it is supposed to do the 
right thing regardless of the signedness of its argument.