Re: Making --with-wide-int the default (was: Dynamic loading progress)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:42:00 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: Aurélien Aptel <address@hidden>, 
>  address@hidden, Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>, 
>  Stephen Leake <address@hidden>,
>  Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
>  >> Please don't assume that --with-wide-int is some rare marginal use
>  >> case.  I configure Emacs with it all the time, and intend to suggest
>  >> that 32-bit builds at least on MS-Windows always use it.
>  >
>  > Why isn't it the default, then (for 32-bit builds)? Are there any 
> downsides?
> 
> Here emacs.exe grows from 60 to 70 MB when configuring --with-wide-int.

You should compare stripped binaries, not unstripped ones.  85% of
those 70MB is DWARF debug info.