From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77500 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (overflow-error "13419098521433281274") Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:59:32 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87hbbj7wyz.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87lj0x4k59.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87lj0x72ce.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87aahdmg51.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oc5ti7js.fsf@member.fsf.org> <871v2pkzrg.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87mxlcpqs9.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299250818 5907 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2011 15:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:00:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25823@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 04 16:00:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PvWUI-0007dF-4D for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:00:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PvWUD-0002HB-E1; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:00:09 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PvWUB-0002Gh-Lx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:00:07 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PvWUA-0005Nd-Ox for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:00:07 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PvWUA-0004XC-2x for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:00:06 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PvWU9-0007aN-Sl for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:00:05 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:00:05 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:00:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sTN6RJLNvXL1+8sKELY5CALqA6Q= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77500 Archived-At: On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:11:18 +0100 Tassilo Horn 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