Subject: bug#14254: 24.3; read-number fails to recognize faulty numbers (string-to-number to blame)

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 17:31:29 -0400

> Also I don't know what compiler bug is stimulated by passing
> args[i] directly, so I just copied code from the code letter `c'.

This workaround has been in the file since 1991 (original commit), so
I hope noone uses this compiler nowadays.

        Stefan