GNU bug report logs - #32252
[PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:14:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 32252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:40:33 +0200

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> writes:

> On Jul 26 2018, Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com> 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).

Not to mention having to represent IP addresses as vectors, thus
forcing operations on them to be byte by byte.
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