* Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org> writes:

  > And I finally got around to trying with XEmacs.  Not good.  Hit `m' to
  > compose a message and got...

  > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "Integer constant overflow in reader" "1145532640" 10)
  >   read(#<buffer " *temp*">)
  >   ecomplete-setup()
  >   message-mode()
  >   message-pop-to-buffer("*mail*")
  >   message-mail()
  >   gnus-summary-mail-other-window(nil)
  >   call-interactively(gnus-summary-mail-other-window)

This seems to be "bignum"[1] related.  I just tried in a SXEmacs that
didn't have bignum.  I got a similar warning, but SXEmacs kept on
going.

So this is most likely a SXEmacs thing, but possibly a problem for
bignum enabled XEmacs 21.5 too.


Footnotes: 
[1]  In SXEmacs it is called "Enhanced Number Types"

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