Re: Making --with-wide-int the default

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Would you say it's safe to make this the default for Emacs 25?

I'd say it's safe, yes.  --with-wide-int assumes 64-bit int but since we're 
requiring C99-or-later now this should be safe.  And as you say, if there are 
performance problems people can configure --with-wide-int=no.

I guess the main problem will be people configuring with --enable-checking and 
with CFLAGS=-g0 on old slow 32-bit machines.  However, people using non-default 
flags can just add --with-wide-int=no to their mix of flags, so this should be OK.