Re: [Emacs-diffs] master dfed333: Remove fixnum restriction on some display vars

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Rather than convert to bignum, we should either crash or signal
>> a `hallelujah` error, depending on whether you think this is due to
>> a bug or too a supranatural power.
> Crashing would be too strong, as one could then crash Emacs simply via (setq
> tab-width (1+ most-positive-fixnum)).

My comment was specifically about buffer-display-count (which counts
a number of distinct heap objects).  I haven't looked closely at the
other cases, but this one jumped at me as a prime example where a fixnum
is safe.


        Stefan