Subject: bug#56641: Deprecate `lsh`

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:43:44 +0800

Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]> writes:

> That is only true when Emacs has been built for 62-bit fixnums. And
> no, I don't see an obvious use other than for compatibility.

Which is the obvious use? For compatibility with programs (not
necessarily within Emacs) that expect different values based on the
number of VALBITs in the Emacs machine file?