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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:13:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0ndky55.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)

> branch: master
> commit e828765d01313acddcf17279b6b43ae9f777f2a4
> Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Commit: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
>     DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t
>     
>     Formerly they were fixnums, which led to problems when dealing
>     with values that might not fit on 32-bit platforms, such as
>     string-chars-consed or floats_consed.  64-bit counters should
>     be good enough for these (for a while, anyway...).

Doesn't this slow down 32-bit builds?  We have quite a few of
DEFVAR_INTs in Emacs.



             reply	other threads:[~2019-02-27 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-27 16:13 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-02-28  1:50 ` [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t 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

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