From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Achim Gratz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making --with-wide-int the default Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:32:10 +0100 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: <874mgj9sl1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447864364 12647 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2015 16:32:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:32:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 17:32:32 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 1Zz5en-000580-SB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:32:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz5en-0000LR-15 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:32:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz5ej-0000LL-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:32:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz5ee-0004yh-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:32:25 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56511) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz5ee-0004wT-Ji for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:32:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zz5ec-0004p8-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:32:19 +0100 Original-Received: from p54b47ea8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.180.126.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:32:18 +0100 Original-Received: from Stromeko by p54b47ea8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:32:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54b47ea8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vkrs5voYdFOiKrcJa1omGa2mAfQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:194716 Archived-At: Ulrich Mueller writes: > I still think that --without-wide-int is the more reasonable default. I beg to differ. > Users who need those big buffers or files can easily flip the option. That's not a good argument to base that decision on anyway. 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. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for Waldorf Q V3.00R3 and Q+ V3.54R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada