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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems |
| Date: | Fri, 7 Sep 2018 11:13:49 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
On 09/07/2018 10:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Why would that be platform dependent?
There are differences in GCC struct layout between MS-Windows and GNU/Linux; see the GCC option -mms-bitfields. I expect it's the usual story about platforms making different tradeoffs between backward compatibility vs performance. I wasn't aware of the 'long long' alignment issue until now, though.
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