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From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	stefankangas@gmail.com, 56641@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56641: Deprecate `lsh`
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:43:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1wn8ckv.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F6FCCE3D-CE62-4E89-9C0B-8A32A97A074A@acm.org> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:30:25 +0200")

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> That is only true when Emacs has been built for 62-bit fixnums. And
> no, I don't see an obvious use other than for compatibility.

Which is the obvious use? For compatibility with programs (not
necessarily within Emacs) that expect different values based on the
number of VALBITs in the Emacs machine file?





  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-21  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-19 13:38 bug#56641: Deprecate `lsh` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-19 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-19 14:44   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-19 15:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-19 15:53     ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-19 16:20       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-19 16:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20  1:25           ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-20  2:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20  3:20               ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-20 11:24                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20 11:57                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-20 12:21                   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-20 12:44                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20 14:30                     ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-21  1:43                       ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-07-21  7:47                         ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-23  7:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-23 10:32   ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-23 11:20     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-23 13:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-23 13:20         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-23 15:42     ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-23 16:51       ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-24  3:38         ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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