Should wide-int be registered in features?

[Rocky Bernstein <rb@dustyfeet.com>]

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.. or in system-configuration. And/or shown in emacs-version?

Recently I was reading the thread "Floating-point constant folding in Emacs
byte compiler", and it looks like, as of now, most (or all) of the issues
raised have been resolved in the byte-code optimizer.

Although I'm happy that things are fixed now, there a part of me that asks:
what might have help detection and prevention of such a problem?

I think there should be a simple program to do some sanity checking of
bytecode *before* it gets run to warn of potential problems or worse does
partial execution work and then crashes.

I've mentioned this in the past, but I now realize that I can write such a
lint checker in Elisp Lisp as a side package.

But there are a couple additional features that might be helpful, both in
such a bytecode lint program and independent of that: whether emacs was
built with --with-wide-int.

My understanding of the floating-point-constant bug is that the behavior is
different between optimizaition on builds that differ using this option.

Other things like x-toolkit, gtk, multi-tty, are listed in features. Should
wide-int be something like this?

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