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: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:38:55 +0200 Message-ID: <83oaer9phs.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> <564AC9EA.5060200@cs.ucla.edu> <22090.61048.541688.443882@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <564B750E.4050305@cs.ucla.edu> <22091.36569.731568.915025@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <874mgj9sl1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447868366 23490 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2015 17:39:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:39:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 18:39:18 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 1Zz6hR-0002mA-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:39:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37261 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz6hR-00084p-11 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:39:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35629) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz6hD-00084f-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz6hA-0006kJ-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:51675) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz6hA-0006jm-5W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NY000H00U45BV00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:34:00 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NY000BXMU4OPU40@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:34:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <874mgj9sl1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> 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:194728 Archived-At: > From: Achim Gratz > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:32:10 +0100 > > The trigger for making that switch on all my old 32bit machines was > that you can't represent an awful lot of dates on any modern system > otherwise. So the decision should really be based on what size > time_t is, IMHO. Maybe I misunderstand you, but the --with-wide-int option doesn't (and cannot) change anything wrt the time_t type. If it was a 32-bit type without wide ints, it will still be a 32-bit type with them. Or did you mean something else?