From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Random832 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making --with-wide-int the default Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:34:39 -0500 Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447724135 26554 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2015 01:35:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 01:35:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 02:35:20 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 1ZyVAw-00085U-Kn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 02:35:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55141 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyVAm-000098-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyVAi-000089-0B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:35:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyVAc-0001et-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:34:59 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyVAc-0001eg-NQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:34:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyVAb-0007n1-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 02:34:53 +0100 Original-Received: from c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([68.39.146.59]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 02:34:53 +0100 Original-Received: from random832 by c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 02:34:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:y8sM5EZIezxhXNihoRiVAjQWaPs= 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:194620 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > Really, integer overflow is not a significant problem with > --with-wide-int. As Eli says, if it were a problem it'd also be a > problem with 64-bit platforms, which it's not. I think the issue some people are bringing up is that the concrete cases that would actually trigger the bugs, if there are any (very large files, very large strings, very large buffers) are rare even on 64-bit machines. Sure, it's nice to be _able_ to edit 2GB files, but how many of those does the average user have lying around?