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Re: maximum buffer size exceeded


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: maximum buffer size exceeded
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:08:06 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> PS: You can supposedly open >4GB files in Emacs with 64bit systems, but
>> looking at the C code, it's clear that you'll bump into bugs where we cast
>> EMACS_INT values to and from `int' (which on many 64bit systems are only
>> 32bit).  I tend to fix those bugs when I bump into them, but they're
>> everywhere and I've fixed only a tiny fraction of them.
>> 
> long is also 32 bits on 64bit versions of Windows, so avoid simply
> replacing int with long.

Of course, it should be replaced with EMACS_INT or EMACS_UINT.


        Stefan




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