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

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:31:32 +0200
>> 
>> I don't it's sensible to configure a non-native default turning
>> everything into multiple-register operations and obliterating compact
>> data structures matching the architecture's choices.
>
> We only use 64-bit types in EMACS_INT, i.e. variables that reference
> buffer and string positions.  All the rest is kept intact.
>
> What is "non-native" about 'long long int'?

Register lengths and opcodes.  You need two registers for every
operation, and several opcodes.

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David Kastrup