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, 11 Nov 2015 20:43:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83wptojs1r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83h9unukbg.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0DEF8.7020901@dancol> <83egpruiyp.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0FF93.2000104@dancol.org> <5610ED13.1010406@dancol.org> <56117F37.9060808@dancol.org> <83oag087gs.fsf@gnu.org> <83oafz70im.fsf@gnu.org> <5620AF43.4050401@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2qn6xfm.fsf@gnu.org> <5620B4FA.1000804@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447267447 6474 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2015 18:44:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 11 19:43:59 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 1ZwaNB-0003TG-Em for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:43:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42414 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwaNA-0001OM-Ud for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:43:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwaMo-0001J7-PJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:43:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwaMZ-0007qP-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:55692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwaMY-0007qL-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXN00G00XYEZ000@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:38:27 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXN00DRLYG3I040@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:38:27 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <5620B4FA.1000804@cs.ucla.edu> 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:194117 Archived-At: > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 01:27:38 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Would you say it's safe to make this the default for Emacs 25? > > I'd say it's safe, yes. --with-wide-int assumes 64-bit int but since we're > requiring C99-or-later now this should be safe. And as you say, if there are > performance problems people can configure --with-wide-int=no. > > I guess the main problem will be people configuring with --enable-checking and > with CFLAGS=-g0 on old slow 32-bit machines. However, people using non-default > flags can just add --with-wide-int=no to their mix of flags, so this should be OK. Based on this, I'd like to turn --with-wide-int on by default. Any last-minute objections?