From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 18:11:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a3a4155-7e4f-278d-63b7-777d758a3d82@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y35ygzvf.fsf@gnu.org>
On 3/1/19 11:26 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why is that a problem? They are just for display to the user, no?
No, as some code computes with garbage-collection statistics, by taking
before-and-after stats and subtracting. This doesn't work with fixnums
after they overflow.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-05 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-27 16:13 [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-28 1:50 ` Paul Eggert
2019-02-28 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-01 16:59 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-01 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-05 2:11 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
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