Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2

[Óscar Fuentes]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 04/15/2016 08:37 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>>> --with-wide-int is not the default on any platform.
>> Isn't it the default on 64 bit platforms, as you mentioned some messages
>> upthread?
>
> No. --with-wide-int causes Emacs to use 'long long int' for EMACS_INT,
> even if pointers fit in a narrower type. On my platform (Fedora 23
> x86-64), EMACS_INT is 'long int' because that is wide enough for
> pointers. Although 'long int' and 'long long int' both happen to be
> 64-bit integers on my platform, 'long int' is a bit nicer (e.g.,
> printf formats can use "%ld" rather than "%lld"), so using
> --with-wide-int would be a minor loss.

Which is irrelevant for the user who builds Emacs, isn't it?

I was just saying that Emacs wide integers are the default on 64 bit
platforms.