I looked through all instances of most-negative-fixnum
and most-positive-fixnum in the Lisp source code, and
when it was easy I removed assumptions that integers
fit in fixnums. The remaining instances are either
nontrivial to fix, or are inherent to the algorithm.
* lisp/arc-mode.el (archive-l-e): Do not convert to float,
since we have bignums now. All uses changed.
* lisp/calc/calc.el (math-bignum):
Don’t special-case most-negative-fixnum.
* lisp/calendar/parse-time.el (parse-time-string):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el (edebug-read-special):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package--remove-hidden):
* lisp/gnus/nnfolder.el (nnfolder-read-folder):
* lisp/international/mule-util.el (filepos-to-bufferpos--dos):
* lisp/menu-bar.el (menu-bar-update-buffers):
* lisp/net/rcirc.el (rcirc-handler-317):
* lisp/org/org-agenda.el (org-cmp-ts):
* lisp/window.el (window--resize-child-windows):
Avoid arbitrary limit to most-positive-fixnum or to
most-negative-fixnum.
* lisp/calendar/time-date.el (days-to-time):
* lisp/erc/erc-dcc.el (erc-unpack-int):
Don’t worry about integer overflow.
* lisp/cedet/semantic/wisent/comp.el (wisent-BITS-PER-WORD):
* lisp/gnus/message.el (message-unique-id):
* lisp/org/org-footnote.el (org-footnote-new):
Simplify.
* lisp/erc/erc-dcc.el (erc-most-positive-int-bytes)
(erc-most-positive-int-msb): Remove; no longer needed.
* lisp/net/imap.el (imap-string-to-integer): Remove; unused.
* lisp/org/org-element.el (org-element--cache-generate-key):
Document fixnum limitation.
Most of this change is to boilerplate commentary such as license URLs.
This change was prompted by ftp://ftp.gnu.org's going-away party,
planned for November. Change these FTP URLs to https://ftp.gnu.org
instead. Make similar changes for URLs to other organizations moving
away from FTP. Also, change HTTP to HTTPS for URLs to gnu.org and
fsf.org when this works, as this will further help defend against
man-in-the-middle attacks (for this part I omitted the MS-DOS and
MS-Windows sources and the test tarballs to keep the workload down).
HTTPS is not fully working to lists.gnu.org so I left those URLs alone
for now.
This patch should not change behavior. It typically omits backslashes
where they are redundant (e.g., in the string literal "^\$").
In a few places, insert backslashes where they make regular
expressions clearer: e.g., replace "^\*" (equivalent to "^*") with
"^\\*", which has the same effect as a regular expression.
Also, use ‘\ %’ instead of ‘\%’ when avoiding confusion with SCCS IDs,
and similarly use ‘\ $’ instead of ‘\$’ when avoiding confusion with
RCS IDs, as that makes it clearer that the backslash is intended.
