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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 11:13:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73af367c-34b0-62f9-6798-4be301f80594@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pnxptegl.fsf@gnu.org>

On 09/07/2018 10:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why would that be platform dependent?

There are differences in GCC struct layout between MS-Windows and 
GNU/Linux; see the GCC option -mms-bitfields. I expect it's the usual 
story about platforms making different tradeoffs between backward 
compatibility vs performance. I wasn't aware of the 'long long' 
alignment issue until now, though.




  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-07 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-06  0:41 Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems Stefan Monnier
2018-09-06  6:51 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-06 12:17   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07  7:15     ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07  8:05       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 13:45         ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 14:12           ` GDB and compiler-operations (was: Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems) Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 14:23             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 15:16             ` GDB and compiler-operations Andreas Schwab
2018-09-07 15:48             ` GDB and compiler-operations (was: Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems) Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 15:58               ` GDB and compiler-operations Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 17:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 17:15                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 19:59             ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-07 14:19           ` Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 16:27             ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 17:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 18:13                 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-09-07 18:32                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 19:05                     ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 19:22                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 12:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 19:04         ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 19:45           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 21:03             ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08  1:54               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08  3:04                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08  3:10                   ` Stefan Monnier

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