t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: > Aloha Thierry, > > How about a user-customizable variable with a default value of > 2147483647? > > All the best, > Tom > > Thierry Banel <tbanelweb...@free.fr> writes: > >> Hi Achim. >> >> You are right, INT_MAX is the C++ constant to compare to. >> It is defined in limits.h >> >> I'm not sure I want to locate limits.h (where is it ? are there several >> versions ?), >> and parse it, all from within Emacs-lisp... >> And this will have to be done for all languages (Python, Perl, Java, and >> so on), >> not just C++. >> >> Or we could assume that INT_MAX is always 2147483647. >> (Which of course is not true). >> >> Not so easy... >>
You don't need to parse limits.h: for POSIX systems, one can use `getconf INT_MAX' from the shell. `getconf -a' will list all the names. Nick
