From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:59:56 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <564F89CC.403@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87io5bv1it.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87egfzuwca.fsf@lifelogs.com> <876118u6f2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8737w3qero.fsf@lifelogs.com> <831tbn9g9j.fsf@gnu.org> <878u5upw7o.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83ziya8xph.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4du80xo.fsf@gnu.org> <837fld6lps.fsf@gnu.org> <564F69F1.1030305@cs.ucla.edu> <564F8355.2070806@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448053219 3217 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2015 21:00:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 20 22:00:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzsmu-0007Wd-EF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:00:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzsmt-0003sT-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:00:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41887) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzsmq-0003r5-Qt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:00:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzsmq-0005qh-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:00:04 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:56479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzsmk-0005kA-7a; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:59:58 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6991E160D74; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:59:57 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id TLy_vb0ykbCQ; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:59:56 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8871160DFD; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:59:56 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id nHt1sTh_l9ZT; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:59:56 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F54A160D74; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:59:56 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194898 Archived-At: Philipp Stephani wrote: > intmax_t could differ between compilers even on the > same machine, which would silently break compatibility. Doesn't sound very likely. intmax_t is hardwired into the C library. If compilers disagree about its size, printf would stop working. Any incompatibility this extreme would require treating the different compilers like we treat any other differences in platform: you need to recompile your module.