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[PATCH] getlimits: port to hosts with very wide int, or non-ASCII

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Message #10 received at 7701-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 7701-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7701: [PATCH] getlimits: port to hosts with very wide int,
	or non-ASCII
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:58:33 +0000

On 21/12/10 22:14, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I haven't pushed this, since the portability bugs it fixes aren't triggered on
> any hosts that I know of, and we're currently just fixing known bugs.

Thanks for the cleanup Paul.
Your 'add' routine is less general
but also simpler, so you're free
to push that after the imminent release.

Mildly related to this is; speeding up seq.
That might be able to use the more general
routine (without allocs) in certain cases.
It might be simple/faster than using gmp?

cheers,
Pádraig.

p.s. savannah is down ATM

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