From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making --with-wide-int the default Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:12:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8rj6uu5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83h9unukbg.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0DEF8.7020901@dancol> <83egpruiyp.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0FF93.2000104@dancol.org> <5610ED13.1010406@dancol.org> <56117F37.9060808@dancol.org> <83oag087gs.fsf@gnu.org> <83oafz70im.fsf@gnu.org> <5620AF43.4050401@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2qn6xfm.fsf@gnu.org> <5620B4FA.1000804@cs.ucla.edu> <87y4f3tdsr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444987350 30486 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2015 09:22:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 11:22:14 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 1Zn1DC-0008DN-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:22:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn1DB-00085T-DX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 05:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58915) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn13Y-000455-08 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 05:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn13W-0000B4-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 05:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:65438) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn13S-000094-DB; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 05:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWB002002QPMI00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:12:00 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWB0028Q2W09Z90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:12:00 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87y4f3tdsr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:191726 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:31:32 +0200 > > I don't it's sensible to configure a non-native default turning > everything into multiple-register operations and obliterating compact > data structures matching the architecture's choices. We only use 64-bit types in EMACS_INT, i.e. variables that reference buffer and string positions. All the rest is kept intact. What is "non-native" about 'long long int'? Do you really use 32-bit GNU/Linux machines? I cannot even easily find such beasts.