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

[Julien Fischer]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Ralph Becket wrote:

> Ian MacLarty, Thursday, 14 January 2010:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Julien Fischer
>>> I think the intent of Ralph's question is: can you now use the literal
>>> -9223372036854775808 on 64-bit machines?
>>
>> Yes, that should also now be possible, although I haven't tested that
>> case.  I'll test that before I commit, but I'm not sure if I could add
>> that test to the test suite so that it would also work on 32 bit
>> machines (?).
>
> Another case for conditional compilation :-)

Hardly!  Just call int.bits_per_int/0 and then adapt the test
accordingly depending on the returned value.

Julien.
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