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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:14:15 +0200

> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:01:51 -0500
> From: Mike Coleman <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> 'which emacs' is /usr/bin/emacs.

I asked to type "file `which emacs`".  The `file' part is important.

> most-positive-fixnum gives
> 
>     1152921504606846975 (#o37777777777, #xffffffff)

That sounds like a bug: the decimal representation is like I'd expect
on a 64-bit machine, but the octal and hex representations are like on
a 32-bit machine.  Strange...

Perhaps this is some bug that was in Emacs 22.1.  Can you upgrade to
22.3?