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

[Paul Eggert]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Instead of going to 64-bit unilaterally it would seem to make more sense
> to me to degrade gracefully into gmp.  GUILE does that, I think that
> XEmacs or SXEmacs can do it, and it's usual for Lisp implementations.

In my spare time I've been working on something along those lines, but it's not 
at all ready for prime time. Some Emacs code assumes that integer overflow 
silently wraps around, and another common assumption is that integers are = if 
and only if they are eq. Bignums violate both assumptions.