Subject: Re: bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits

From: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:07:24 +0200

Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]> writes:

> Problem is 32bit Emacs has 28 bit integers, so there's no way to fit
> the whole exit code anyway.

There is -with-wide-int for 32bit Emacs and it can be compiled as a
64bit executable.

> At least truncating to 8 bits is portable.

Imposing the limits of one platform on another is the contrary of being
portable.

> Plus, isn't it against Emacs policy to provide features on non-Free
> platforms before Free ones?

Nobody is asking for more than 8 bits of exit status on *nix. There is
no competition here about who has the wider exit status.