On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Please don't assume that --with-wide-int is some rare marginal use
> case.  I configure Emacs with it all the time, and intend to suggest
> that 32-bit builds at least on MS-Windows always use it.

Why isn't it the default, then (for 32-bit builds)? Are there any downsides?