bug#20862: 25.0.50; 32-bit Emacs configured --with-wide-int miscompiles CL

[Glenn Morris]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Can you elaborate?  What are "gensym values"?
>
> Generated symbols of some sort.  They appear to be like the output
> that the printer uses when it's printing a recursive data structure.
> E.g., one .elc file says '(#3=#:G66300 e)' where the other says
> '(#3=#:G44900 e)'.  I doubt whether this difference matters, though I
> haven't investigated.

I think this is because cl--gensym-counter, as used by cl-gensym, is
initialized to a random value based on the time. (This is an issue for
reproducible builds, if we care about those.)