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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:13:26 +0200

> branch: master
> commit e828765d01313acddcf17279b6b43ae9f777f2a4
> Author: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Commit: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> 
>     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.



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