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NEWS: Document change to Lisp reader for overflowing ints.
author Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
date Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:33:04 -0500
parents 6773fa37732a
children 6ac7a46c38cc
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Sat Mar 06 15:27:19 2010 -0500
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sat Mar 06 15:33:04 2010 -0500
@@ -432,6 +432,12 @@
 
 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.2
 
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+** The Lisp reader turns integers that are too large/small into floats.
+For instance, on machines where `536870911' is the largest integer,
+reading `536870912' gives the floating-point object `536870912.0'.
+This change does not change how integers overflow.
+
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 ** Several obsolete functions removed.
 The functions have been obsolete since Emacs 19, and are unlikely to