Re: Suspicious warning in W64 build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 23:40:05 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Not sure what to do about this.  Add 'volatile' to the declaration of
> > 'c'?
> 
> Looks like a GCC bug. To work around it, please try CACHEABLE instead of 
> volatile, to warn the reader that it's a compiler-bug workaround. Like this:
> 
>    struct handler *CACHEABLE c = handlerlist->nextfree;

Richard, Fabrice -- could you try this, please?

> > This seems to imply that m4/manywarnings.m4 has a bug: it somehow
> > deduces that a 64-bit Windows build can only allocate up to LONG_MAX
> > bytes.
> 
> That is due to a limitation in AC_COMPUTE_INT: it can't handle numbers larger 
> than LONG_MAX. I attempted to work around this limitation by changing Gnulib 
> to 
> assume that the correct value is 2**63 - 1 if it doesn't fit in 'long', and 
> by 
> merging the latest Gnulib into the emacs-26 branch. Please give it a try.

Did you forget to push this to the Emacs repository?  Or am I blind?

Thanks.