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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mike Coleman <tutufan <at> gmail.com>, 2790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2790: emacs 22.1.1 cannot open 5GB file on 64GB 64-bit	GNU/Linux box
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:42:04 +0300

> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:27:23 -0500
> From: Mike Coleman <tutufan <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 2790 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
> 
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Richard M Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> > Please try the pretest of Emacs 23 and see if it works.
> > See ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/.
> >
> > And please don't call it a "Linux box".  The system running in it
> > is more GNU than Linux, so please call it a GNU/Linux box.
> > (See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html.)
> >
> 
> Okay, tried it (emacs-23.0.91), but no luck.  Looks very nice, but
> finding that large file produced the same error.  The value of
> 'most-positive-fixnum' prints correctly, though (which is different).
> 
> The smallest file that produces the error has 536870912 bytes, exactly
> 512MB.

This means that the bug is still there in the current code base.
Thanks for testing.
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