Subject: bug#2706: 23.0.91; error "Buffer exceeds maximum size"

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:55:48 -0400

Martin wrote:

>   ediff of text files containing contents of compilation buffers
>
>   the text files are available by private mail from 'parozusa at web dot de'

If you're just concerned about the size of the files (rather than
privacy), you can send them to [email-masked].

They won't be sent out to the bug list, but we can download them from
the bug web-page.

>   195500 03-17 09:01 templates-lese-fehler.txt
>     3972 03-16 13:57 templates-keine-funktionale-aenderung.txt

What units are these file sizes in? Is it possible that the size of
the resulting diff is simply too large for Emacs?

>   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Buffer exceeds maximum size")
>     call-process("diff" nil #<buffer *ediff-diff*> nil "u:/aemf/register-anbindung/templates-keine-funktionale-aenderung.txt" "u:/aemf/register-anbindung/templates-lese-fehler.txt")

And if you execute

diff u:/aemf/register-anbindung/templates-keine-funktionale-aenderung.txt
  u:/aemf/register-anbindung/templates-lese-fehler.txt

outside of Emacs, how big is the result?