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From: | Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: | bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits |
Date: | Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:07:24 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes: > Problem is 32bit Emacs has 28 bit integers, so there's no way to fit > the whole exit code anyway. There is -with-wide-int for 32bit Emacs and it can be compiled as a 64bit executable. > At least truncating to 8 bits is portable. Imposing the limits of one platform on another is the contrary of being portable. > Plus, isn't it against Emacs policy to provide features on non-Free > platforms before Free ones? Nobody is asking for more than 8 bits of exit status on *nix. There is no competition here about who has the wider exit status.
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