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28.0.50; [native-comp] Build fails for 32bit --with-wide-int

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>,
 46495 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46495: 28.0.50;
 [native-comp] Build fails for 32bit --with-wide-int
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:19:48 +0200

On February 15, 2021 11:01:19 AM GMT+02:00, Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun 14 Feb 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
> >> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:24:32 +0000
> >> 
> >> > I suspect that this problem may not be Windows-specific, and
> should be
> >> > reproducable on Linux, but I have not tried that.
> >> 
> >> I have also tried the mingw.org 32bit toolchain (i686-pc-mingw32)
> when
> >> configured with with "--with-nativecomp --with-wide-int", and that
> >> works.
> >
> > Thanks, that's good news.
> >
> >> Thus this bug seems to be a problem with the MSYS2 mingw32 32bit
> >> toolchain (i686-w64-mingw32) only.
> >
> > It does seem that way, although I wonder what could that problem
> be...
> 
> I have only just discovered this news item:
> 
> https://www.msys2.org/news/#2020-05-17-32-bit-msys2-no-longer-actively-supported
> 
> Perhaps that means that only the mingw.org (i686-w64-mingw32)
> toolchain
> should be supported for 32bit builds on Windows.
> 
>     AndyM

Right, but Andrea said there were problems on Posix systems as well with this configuration, so it could be that something else is at work here.

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