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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-11-17 21:07:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-11-17 21:07:37 +0200 |
| commit | abf673af29ba2a2e0001ebd1db183377724f0cc4 (patch) | |
| tree | f8cc95488858c5e856c325ece5cab2db89ad7359 | |
| parent | ce4eeca8d40edf95eeca05c76f4b474d38ea8d6d (diff) | |
| download | emacs-abf673af29ba2a2e0001ebd1db183377724f0cc4.tar.gz | |
Improve configure --help text for wide ints
* configure.ac (wide-int): Clarify user-level advantages and
disadvantages.
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 94ee9b7aa2b..cfd591c7b86 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ this option's value should be 'yes', 'no', 'lucid', 'athena', 'motif', 'gtk', with_x_toolkit=$val ]) -OPTION_DEFAULT_OFF([wide-int], [prefer wide Emacs integers (typically 62-bit)]) +OPTION_DEFAULT_OFF([wide-int], [prefer wide Emacs integers (typically 62-bit); allows buffer and string size up to 2GB on 32-bit hosts, at the cost of 10% to 30% slowdown of Lisp interpreter and larger memory footprint]) if test "$with_wide_int" = yes; then AC_DEFINE([WIDE_EMACS_INT], 1, [Use long long for EMACS_INT if available.]) fi |