Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Make maximal-string-length architecture dependent

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 10:31:14AM +0100, Christian Kellermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the patch below uses C_HEADER_SIZE_MASK for the library's string
> limit. This should increase buffers for certain operations on 64bit
> systems where it was arbitrarily tied to 16MB.

Thanks, pushed.  I made a small change to hide maximal-string-length.
Since it's no longer a constant it was visible to user code (from csi,
for example).  I've also added a note to NEWS.

Cheers,
Peter
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