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Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2 |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:22:06 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> I was just saying that Emacs wide integers are the default on 64 bit
>>> platforms.
>> No: --with-wide-int was introduced so that Emacs can use integers which
>> are twice the size of pointers (at the cost of making Lisp_Object twice
>> the size, hence wasting space for all non-integer values).
> AFAIK that was the reasoning when 64 bit platforms were not prevalent
> and 32 bit the norm.
--with-wide-int is pretty recent, so 64bit was already prevalent when
it appeared. IOW The reasoning hasn't changed since.
> Hence effectively --with-wide-int is a method for ensuring that a 64 bit
> type is used for storing Emacs integers.
That's the end result in practice, I guess. But from the implementation
point of view it's quite different.
> Now, can be agree on that I'm right and stop this pointless discussion
> :-)
Admit it: I'm right,
Stefan
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2, (continued)
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/16
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2, Stephen Leake, 2016/04/16
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/16
- Re: png in emacs 25 mingw64, Stephen Leake, 2016/04/16
- Re: png in emacs 25 mingw64, Stephen Leake, 2016/04/16
- Re: png in emacs 25 mingw64, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/16
- Re: png in emacs 25 mingw64, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/16
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2, Phillip Lord, 2016/04/18
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2, Stefan Monnier, 2016/04/15
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/04/15
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2 (was: Build failure for Emacs master), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/14
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/04/14
- Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/14
- Re: Build failure for Emacs master, Angelo Graziosi, 2016/04/14
- Re: Build failure for Emacs master, Paul Eggert, 2016/04/14
- Re: Build failure for Emacs master, Stefan Monnier, 2016/04/13
- Re: Build failure for Emacs master, John Wiegley, 2016/04/13
- Re: Build failure for Emacs master, Paul Eggert, 2016/04/14