GNU bug report logs - #3918
maximum buffer size exceed

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gunturu Murali Krishna <gunkrish <at> cisco.com>

Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:45:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 3918 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Gunturu Murali Krishna <gunkrish <at> cisco.com>
Cc: 3918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3918: maximum buffer size exceed
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:43:48 -0400

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
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