Subject: Re: bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:31:13 +0200

On Jul 26 2018, Helmut Eller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Because Emacs Lisp was very successful without bignums.

The lack of bignums requires workarounds like the first two elements of
(current-time) or the 11th and 12th element of (file-attributes).

Andreas.

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