Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> 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