pock: Probe for the fixnum width by enquiring the largest fixnum value.
authorMark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:16:37 +0000 (12:16 +0100)
committerMark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:43:08 +0000 (17:43 +0000)
commit77126f3e3a4246b333782212082ed9155f68e3f1
tree5a7a5b80c3e3700be2e8e687e69ff1ef671c4528
parenteec2dab4abbe647fa3cfb38b9c3295fc64481cef
pock: Probe for the fixnum width by enquiring the largest fixnum value.

Python 3 doesn't distinguish fixnums from bignums at the type level, so
this would run forever.  Instead, get (a guess at) the largest fixnum
value, and use that.
pock