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Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now
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> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 08:59:25 -0800
> 
> On 2/28/19 10:09 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We have
> > lived with this limitation for a long time, so why not leave it alone?
> > Just because we _can_ make them bignums doesn't necessarily mean we
> > should.
> 
> I'm mostly worried about garbage-collection statistics that can overflow
> fixnums on 32-bit platform.

Why is that a problem?  They are just for display to the user, no?

> However, it's a valid point that most of these DEFVAR_INTs can be
> fixnums. I'll look into changing them back, while keeping GC stats
> reliable.

Thanks.