Setpos works wrongly for some negative numbers just under -2^{32}.

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#61 Setpos works wrongly for some negative numbers just under -2^{32}.

Milestone: v1.0 (example)

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Updated: 2022-12-27

Created: 2022-12-26

Creator: Anonymous

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When using g.setpos("-97717929936","-97717929936") followed by x,y=g.getpos(), I got x=y=-11818584006 in hex FFFFFFE9 3F8EB830 is interpreted as FFFFFFFD 3F8EB830.
(I would like to zoom to this location in RCT15 demonstration)

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Andrew Trevorrow - 2022-12-27

This bug was fixed in the Golly 4.2.

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#61 Setpos works wrongly for some negative numbers just under -2^{32}.

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