From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:33:04 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: NEWS: Document change to Lisp reader for overflowing ints.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.1.94~7^2~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6f94db5466c8625cad48dc33acde36f7dfcd4a9;p=emacs.git

NEWS: Document change to Lisp reader for overflowing ints.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 1577bb3edd9..4b0e5468f49 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -432,6 +432,12 @@ System (CLOS).  It is used by the other CEDET packages.
 
 * 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