Subject: Re: bug#2790: emacs 22.1.1 cannot open 5GB file on 64GB 64-bit GNU/Linux box

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:52:48 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:40:24 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Then that's another bug waiting to happen, isn't it?  Buffer positions
> > should be limited by EMACS_INT, not by int, right?
> 
> If you fix _every_ use of int for buffer positions.

Right.  And in the meantime, we should probably tell Emacs on 64-bit
platforms is capable of visiting files up to 2GB large.