Add clarifications to bigint code #1922
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nif.c `make_bigint` differs from bif.c one: it doesn't check for oveflow and it doesn't perform normalization: it is just tailored on parse_integer purpose. Signed-off-by: Davide Bettio <[email protected]>
Each integer number have only one possible reppresentation, so `== term_from_int(0)` is safe. Signed-off-by: Davide Bettio <[email protected]>
Add comments about big integers handling. Signed-off-by: Davide Bettio <[email protected]>
time is still limited to 64-bits, so rephrase the disclaimer. Signed-off-by: Davide Bettio <[email protected]>
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Make existing code more understandable
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