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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:22:17 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> We could prevent optimization by going through a volatile var,
> of course.

That would mean it would still depend on an undefined operation.  The
right way to check for overflow is to check against the limit
beforehand.

Andreas.

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