[m-rev.] for review: allow string.base_string_to_int to parse int.min_int literals

[Ian MacLarty]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Ralph Becket <rafe at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> Ian MacLarty, Wednesday, 13 January 2010:
>> Change string.base_string_to_int so that it doesn't fail if the base is 10 and
>> the integer is int.min_int.  The previous behaviour seems unintuitive and means
>> we can't use the literal -2147483648 in Mercury programs on 32 bit machines,
>> even though that number can be represented in 32 bits.
>
> What about 64 bits?

What about them?

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