[PATCH] * doc/make.texi (Errors): Document integer width

2021-12-02 Thread Jouke Witteveen
--- There was some talk of supporting arbitrarily large integers. This was mostly an academic discussion, since the currently supported range (64 bits) should cover all use cases. On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 8:49 PM Paul Smith wrote: > > allowing practicality to drive simplification in code turns

RE: [bug #61594] suggest new $(hash ...) function

2021-12-02 Thread rsbecker
On December 2, 2021 4:20 AM, Boris Kolpackov > rsbec...@nexbridge.com writes: > > > Sadly, the import restrictions do not distinguish between message > > digests and cryptography [...] > > You seem to be quite knowledgeable on the matter so can you provide one > concrete example of where one

RE: [bug #61594] suggest new $(hash ...) function

2021-12-02 Thread rsbecker
On December 2, 2021 3:44 AM, Edward Welbourne > > My first counter-argument comes from the "$(shell git hash-object obj)" > > suggestion which begs the question: if git, which relies heavily upon > > SHA-1, is available, doesn't that mean SHA-1 is also natively > > available? I'm not aware of git

Re: [bug #61594] suggest new $(hash ...) function

2021-12-02 Thread Boris Kolpackov
rsbec...@nexbridge.com writes: > Sadly, the import restrictions do not distinguish between message > digests and cryptography [...] You seem to be quite knowledgeable on the matter so can you provide one concrete example of where one jurisdiction restricts export to another of, say, an SHA-1

Re: [bug #61594] suggest new $(hash ...) function

2021-12-02 Thread Edward Welbourne
> My first counter-argument comes from the "$(shell git hash-object obj)" > suggestion which begs the question: if git, which relies heavily upon SHA-1, > is available, doesn't that mean SHA-1 is also natively available? I'm not > aware of git being restricted in any jurisdictions. Seems