From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making --with-wide-int the default Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 05:42:48 +0200 Message-ID: <83h9klb8av.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83oag087gs.fsf@gnu.org> <83oafz70im.fsf@gnu.org> <5620AF43.4050401@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2qn6xfm.fsf@gnu.org> <5620B4FA.1000804@cs.ucla.edu> <83wptojs1r.fsf@gnu.org> <56444C66.8050506@gmx.at> <83r3jugx8g.fsf@gnu.org> <87io56nu0a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lha1dl87.fsf@gnu.org> <871tbrmeu3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <564A63FB.7040209@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447731800 3917 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2015 03:43:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Random832 Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 04:43:11 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 1ZyXAk-0002Ki-Dx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 04:43:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyXAj-0003eM-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyXAW-0003bx-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:42:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyXAR-00080S-61 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:42:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:39253) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyXAQ-00080J-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:42:51 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXX00F00WGPN200@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 05:37:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXX006HWWR5JZ80@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 05:37:53 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 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:194623 Archived-At: > From: Random832 > Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:34:39 -0500 > > Paul Eggert writes: > > Really, integer overflow is not a significant problem with > > --with-wide-int. As Eli says, if it were a problem it'd also be a > > problem with 64-bit platforms, which it's not. > > I think the issue some people are bringing up is that the concrete cases > that would actually trigger the bugs, if there are any (very large > files, very large strings, very large buffers) are rare even on 64-bit > machines. They are rare, but they have been tested a few years ago, and the bugs found fixed. The people who did that specifically made a point of editing such large files for the purposes of finding and fixing any such bugs. > Sure, it's nice to be _able_ to edit 2GB files, but how many > of those does the average user have lying around? Those who need to look at large log files have to do this every day.