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Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> I've committed it with a slight modification[1].  Thanks.

Thanks for applying it.

> BTW, isn't it an XEmacs bug?  Emacs's floor can handle the value
> of an argument that it returns the maximum integer:
>
> (floor (+ (lsh -1 -1) 0.999))
>  => 134217727

Ah, I've always shifted in the other direction :-)

I'm not sure whether to call this behaviour a bug.  If an operation
returns an out of bound value, you've always got two possibilities:
flag an error or silently convert it to the maximum allowed error.

norbert.