GNU bug report logs - #43764
Calc shift right broken

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1 <at> hotmail.fr>

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 15:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 43764 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1 <at> hotmail.fr>,
 43764 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43764: Calc shift right broken
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 12:34:15 +0200

5 okt. 2020 kl. 10.12 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>:

> That sounds like a welcome change...  or is it possible that somebody is
> using calc to do 32-bit math and would be surprised by this?

Maybe but not in any very harmful way. I'm sure they would cope.

> But if we're changing the number of default bits, perhaps it would make
> more sense to default to having no bit width restrictions?  Or would
> that entail major Calc surgery?  

Any changes to Calc, however minor, are fraught with danger and excitement!

Fun as it may be, better not making changes speculatively though.
(On the other hand it could be that everyone have been bothered about this for years. I have no way of knowing.)
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 196 days ago.

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