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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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 2790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mike Coleman <tutufan <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#2790: emacs 22.1.1 cannot open 5GB file on 64GB 64-bit Linux	box
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:21:57 +0100

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

>> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:01:51 -0500
>> From: Mike Coleman <tutufan <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 2790 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
>> 
>> 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...

22.1 had a buggy format that truncated numbers to the range of int.  I
fixed some bugs here for 22.2.

Andreas.

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