GNU bug report logs - #2790
emacs 22.1.1 cannot open 5GB file on 64GB 64-bit Linux box

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mike Coleman <tutufan <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:00:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #115 received at 2790 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 2790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
        tutufan <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#2790: emacs 22.1.1 cannot open 5GB file on 64GB 64-bit	GNU/Linux box
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:52:48 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: 2790 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,  tutufan <at> gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:40:24 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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.
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