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

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:07:36 -0700

Helmut Eller wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26 2018, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
>> On 07/26/2018 10:16 AM, Helmut Eller wrote:
>>> Where is that code?
>>
>> One example is url-digest-auth-make-cnonce. This was the first I ran
>> into. No doubt there are others.
> 
> And how would url-digest-auth-make-cnonce look with bignums?

Just like it does now. It would not need to change.

> With bignums, disassemble_lisp_time has to support the old
> formats and bignums too.

Yes, of course. That's not much trouble. The point is that other Lisp code can 
simply deal with just one integer rather than a tricky list of four integers 
with mixed bases.