From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3296 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Conrad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow error when Gnus connects to courier IMAP server Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:55:30 +0100 Organization: Church of GNU Emacs Message-ID: <86ekv1rgl9.fsf@ID-24456.user.dfncis.de> References: <87hdzxn9dh.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> Reply-To: Christoph Conrad NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669463 18453 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:04:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9ffe09b.dip0.t-ipconnect.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9ffe09b.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (217.255.224.155) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071780949 7745068 217.255.224.155 ([24456] 10357) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:c0OB/Iv0ozv734cdyEUPbE8ekbQ= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3437 Original-Lines: 15 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3437 Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3296 Archived-At: Hi Kai, > A third way is to modify Gnus to use some other data structure > for article numbers. A workaround for all systems would be to use doubles explicitely, e.g. to parse the article number as double. This could be achieved by adding ".0" to the article number string. Mantissa of doubles are quite long, at least 38 bit. Herzliche Grüße, Christoph -- Alle Menschen werden als Originale geboren. Die meisten sterben als Kopien.