GNU bug report logs - #13997
building emacs 24.3 --with-wide-int failed with seg fault during ./temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Petr Hracek <phracek <at> redhat.com>

Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:09:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 13997 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Petr Hracek <phracek <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 13997 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13997: building emacs 24.3 failed with seg fault during
	./temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:26:01 -0400

Petr Hracek wrote:

> I have found that when configure script is used without
> --with-wide-int option that compilation works correctly.
>
> For what is used for --with-wide-int?

No offence meant, but why are you adding configure options if you don't
know what they do?

> Does have any affect on emacs?

From etc/NEWS:

  ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
  With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
  On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512
  MiB to about 2 GiB.

So you can ignore this unless you are using a 32-bit platform and
really, really, need to edit buffers larger than 512MB.
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