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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#32463: 27.0.50; (logior -1) => 4611686018427387903 |
Date: | Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:24:04 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Should the default value [of integer-width] be different on 32-bit platforms?
My guess is not. The current default of 2**16 means that individual bignums are limited to around 8 KiB, and even 32-bit platforms can handle that. Of course as we gain experience we may want to change the default.
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