Subject: RE: bug#3918: maximum buffer size exceed

From: "Murali Krishna (gunkrish)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:48:07 +0530

Hi Stefan,

What and where need to change in C code, could you please tell me the
procedure how to do it?

Thanks
Murali 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Monnier [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:14 PM
To: Murali Krishna (gunkrish)
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: bug#3918: maximum buffer size exceed

tag 3918 wontfix
thanks

> Recent messages:
> File TAGS is large (288MB), really open? (y or n)
> byte-code: Maximum buffer size exceeded Making completion list...
> call-interactively: Text is read-only
> call-interactively: End of buffer [8 times] Making completion list... 
> [3 times]
> call-interactively: Text is read-only
> Quit
> Making completion list... [2 times]
> Loading emacsbug...done

> How can I open large file in EMACS?

IIRC, on a 64bit system, you can open files upto 2GB.
On 32bit systems, you're currently limited to 256MB only (it could be
pushed to 512MB with some changes to the C code), and going
significantly further is pretty difficult.

        Stefan