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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (overflow-error "13419098521433281274")
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:59:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbbj7wyz.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxlcpqs9.fsf@member.fsf.org>

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:11:18 +0100 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote: 

TH> I've now combined both approaches.  A condition-case handler simply
TH> deletes the big number and `read's again.  That fixes the issue for me.
TH> I added a FIXME and comment, too.  Maybe Lars has some better idea how
TH> to deal with that.

Cool, thanks.

TH> Since that number occurs as value of MODSEQ (which Gnus doesn't use), is
TH> the HIGHESTMODSEQ (which Gnus reads and stores as number) also a
TH> candidate for overflowing?  It probably is, so it might be better to
TH> handle it as string just like the UIDVALIDITY.

I agree and would suggest at this point a generic Gnus approach to
reading large numbers rather than one-off hacks.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-04 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-02 15:28 Tassilo Horn
2011-03-02 17:52 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-02 19:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-02 19:24   ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-02 20:17     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-02 20:36       ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-02 20:52         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-02 21:02           ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-02 20:56         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-03  8:11           ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-04 14:59             ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-03-05 10:52         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-05 10:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-07 17:29   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-15 16:50     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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