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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t |
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Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:26:28 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 08:59:25 -0800
>
> On 2/28/19 10:09 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We have
> > lived with this limitation for a long time, so why not leave it alone?
> > Just because we _can_ make them bignums doesn't necessarily mean we
> > should.
>
> I'm mostly worried about garbage-collection statistics that can overflow
> fixnums on 32-bit platform.
Why is that a problem? They are just for display to the user, no?
> However, it's a valid point that most of these DEFVAR_INTs can be
> fixnums. I'll look into changing them back, while keeping GC stats
> reliable.
Thanks.