From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: integer-width Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:44:15 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535514243 8341 195.159.176.226 (29 Aug 2018 03:44:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 03:44:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 29 05:43:59 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1furOh-00023q-Ks for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 05:43:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41008 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1furQn-0000Uy-PI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:46:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1furQc-0000Tf-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1furP0-0006io-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:42245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1furP0-0006i4-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w7T3iF8m001883; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 97806AEBF9; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:44:15 -0400 (EDT) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 3 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.1, EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6361=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6361> : inlines <6833> : streams <1796863> : uri <2698316> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229037 Archived-At: I see integer-width is set to 65536, and NEWS mentions this var and what is its effect, but I can't find any documentation for the reason behind the existence of this variable nor the choice of its default value. E.g. would there be harm in setting it to most-positive-fixnum? Stefan