From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Another ptrdiff_t Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:59:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83a9yr244w.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343034012 16523 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2012 09:00:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:00:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 23 11:00:12 2012 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 1StEUr-000778-P7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:00:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StEUr-0001n0-1r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:00:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StEUi-0001iC-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:00:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StEUd-00088f-Ca for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:00:00 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:48554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StEUd-00088Z-7N; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q6N8xqg3014735; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2E939AE3BA; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:59:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83a9yr244w.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:43:11 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.2, RV4287=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4287> : streams <789197> : uri <1172505> 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: 2.1.14 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:151808 Archived-At: > Another ptrdiff_t enters the scene. > Can we perhaps have some conventions regarding which integer types to > use in what situations? Yes, especially that if we ever intend to support Emacs sessions with 2^32 buffers, we'll need to make more changes. Stefan