Re: How to automatically increment an index array

[David Kastrup]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

> () David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> () Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:50:35 +0200
>
>    Well, one could write something like
>
>    C-M-% \[0x\([0-9a-f]+\)\] RET \,(format "[%08x]" (+ (* 4
>    (string-to-number \1 16)) #X8745b400)) RET
>
>    It is not all too pretty, but not all too bad either.  If the
>    pattern of the numbers is regular, you might use \# in the
>    replacement rather than an explicit conversion.
>
> Although the general approach is sound, in this case
> the #x8745b400 will be silently truncated on a 32-bit host.

Oops.

> To workaround, one can hardformat the high hex digits:
>
>   (format "[8745%04x]" (... #xb400))

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