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

[Eli Zaretskii]

To reproduce, on a 32-bit system:

 ./configure ... --with-wide-int
 make
 cd test/automated
 make

This causes the cl-lib-tests to fail in this innocent check:

  (ert-deftest cl-lib-test-first ()
    (should (null (cl-first '()))) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

The error is "Invalid function ((nil))".

The same test runs fine in a 32-bit build with 32-bit ints.

While digging into this, I found out that if I compile cl-lib-test.el
with an Emacs executable that doesn't use wide ints, the test
succeeds.  So I compared the .elc files, and they indeed differ.
Moreover, by comparing the *.elc files in the entire Emacs tree, I
found 3 files that differ: cl-generic.elc, srt-wy.elc, and one file in
Eshell whose name I don't remember.

Focusing my attention on cl-generic, which might explain why
cl-lib-tests fails, how can I debug this?  Would presenting
disassembly of a part of the byte code where I see differences help
someone to come up with ideas?  Are there any other directions to
investigate this?

Did anyone run the test suite successfully in such a 32-bit build?  Do
all the *.elc files come out identical to a "normal" 32-bit build?

TIA


In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.189 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-06-21 on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Repository revision: 821a3633564f36857968c7fe2b8bb6681a895905
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/d/usr --enable-checking=yes,glyphs --with-wide-int
 'CFLAGS=-gdwarf-4 -g3 -O0''

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