Re: 64-bit lossage

[Dave Love]

Ken Raeburn <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm using the Lisp union type to ensure we've got reasonable type
> handling, that we're not confusing Lisp objects and actual integer
> values we want to use.

I don't think that needs to be done specifically on Alpha, though.

> Generally the macros duplicate values that lisp.h or config.h would've
> selected anyways.

I know there's lots of that sort of thing in the build system overall,
but we were forbidden to clean it up in the past.

> On most (all?) of the 64-bit configurations I've worked on, "long" is
> 64 bits;

Of course.  The idea was to be able to use long long on 32-bit
systems.