Re: [Emacs-diffs] master e828765: DEFVAR_INT variables are now intmax_t

[Paul Eggert]

On 2/28/19 10:09 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We have
> lived with this limitation for a long time, so why not leave it alone?
> Just because we _can_ make them bignums doesn't necessarily mean we
> should.

I'm mostly worried about garbage-collection statistics that can overflow
fixnums on 32-bit platform. However, it's a valid point that most of
these DEFVAR_INTs can be fixnums. I'll look into changing them back,
while keeping GC stats reliable.