RE: Inconsistency: sometimes an integer, sometimes a float

[Doug Lewan]

Cool bug! How in the world did you find it?

FYI emacs 24.3.1 on AIX 6.1, power pc architecture has this bug, but not on 
CYGWIN.

,Douglas
Douglas Lewan
Shubert Ticketing
(201) 489-8600 ext 224

Of course, shells have one feature that no other language has: subshells.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of djc
> Sent: Thursday, 2014 January 23 05:39
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Inconsistency: sometimes an integer, sometimes a float
> 
> "(/ 536870911 1000000)" is an integer.
> 
> "(/ 536870912 1000000)" is a float.
> 
> I know why, but it's still unpleasant to have to program around it.  I
> suppose this begs the question of when there will be a supported 64-bit
> release of Emacs.
> 
> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
> 
> djc