From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:31:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <09153aed-361d-4f82-d9ac-b502314769ae@cs.ucla.edu> <83lg91dqd4.fsf@gnu.org> <20180826201947.GC1867@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535315437 14066 195.159.176.226 (26 Aug 2018 20:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 20:30:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Paul Eggert , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, pipcet@gmail.com, Lars Ingebrigtsen , eliz@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 26 22:30:33 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1g7-0003XU-Lg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 22:30:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50291 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1iD-0007Ag-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60405) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1hM-0007Ab-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:31:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1hM-0003Sc-AF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:31:48 -0400 Original-Received: from pmta31.teksavvy.com ([76.10.157.38]:53471) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1hG-0003IV-QR; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:31:42 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2E/BQBRDYNb/z6ZCkxaHAEBAQQBAQoBA?= =?us-ascii?q?YNPgVISg1OJNotDAYIMEyABl2wLhGYEAgKDECI4FAECAQEBAQEBAgICaSiFOQE?= =?us-ascii?q?EAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIUuCKNAil+JbYIAhCSKVgKbLAmQBoExAYcGhhGTPQyBW?= =?us-ascii?q?CKBUjMaCDCDJZBuI40iAQE?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2E/BQBRDYNb/z6ZCkxaHAEBAQQBAQoBAYNPgVISg1OJNot?= =?us-ascii?q?DAYIMEyABl2wLhGYEAgKDECI4FAECAQEBAQEBAgICaSiFOQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSF?= =?us-ascii?q?BgNJIUuCKNAil+JbYIAhCSKVgKbLAmQBoExAYcGhhGTPQyBWCKBUjMaCDCDJZB?= =?us-ascii?q?uI40iAQE?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.53,292,1531800000"; d="scan'208";a="44156834" Original-Received: from 76-10-153-62.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([76.10.153.62]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 26 Aug 2018 16:31:40 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8F87FAE240; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:31:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20180826201947.GC1867@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 26 Aug 2018 20:19:47 +0000") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 76.10.157.38 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228949 Archived-At: > I'm trying to imagine a buffer whose size won't fit into a fixnum, on a > 64-bit machine. Unlikely (at least in the foreseeable future), indeed. But for 32bit builds, this was deemed important enough to introduce --with-wide-int. Stefan