Re: Support of binary and hexadecimal integers in PARI/GP

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:35:47AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 01:53:50AM +0300, Vasili Burdo wrote:
> > >Even so, this is still worthwhile to do.
> > Ok. Will deliver tomorrow.
> 
> Do not trouble yourself, I did it already, see GIT branch
> bill-binary-hex.
> 
> > >I assume your patch was created to apply to PARI 2.7.4 ?
> > No, it's for master - i.e. trunk.
> > I'm new to git - work mostly w/ perforce and svn
> 
> Your patch only applied to PARI 2.7.4 though, I had to forward port it.
> 
> > >Your patch changes the result of strtoi
> > Hm, could you point me to the test which fails?
> > 
> > >? strtoi("0b111")
> > >%1 = 7
> > >instead of 0.
> > Hm, silent failure in basecase and something useful w/ my changes.
> > Looks like my change is better :)
> 
> Well, this is not a silent failure (it stop reading at the first non digit
> character), but it happens it was not documented, so it is probably OK, though
> the documentation of strtoi need to be updated.

Well, I have applied this part of the patch and I have updated strtoi.

Thanks for your work!
Bill.