From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>
Cc: sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature request: view part of file
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:54:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83boclr7bu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738xykq0d.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:52:50 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> So it is really a bug in emacs, insert-file-contents accepts integer
> values only, but for big files the size and positions are floats. In my
> case 802200060.0.
It's not a bug, it's a fundamental limitation of how Emacs accesses
buffers. Any valid buffer position _must_ fit into the width of an
Emacs integer. The only way to lift that limitation is to compile
Emacs with a wider EMACS_INT type.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-19 6:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-13 20:52 feature request: view part of file Sam Steingold
2012-06-13 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-14 16:20 ` Sam Steingold
2012-06-14 16:53 ` Mathias Dahl
2012-06-14 17:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-14 18:21 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <jwvd3517qww.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <CABrcCQ5zDfB2tw9DRrwpCZmDqHPc+BB6W5w9ULNU95e_v4yyJw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <87395xu768.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <CABrcCQ6rpG9qhsCO+ZEpTiNqbQRtg-PBeb=q_B5F8YgrGxoWKA@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <jwvvcit67sc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-14 19:34 ` Sam Steingold
2012-06-14 21:29 ` Sam Steingold
2012-06-18 20:34 ` Štěpán Němec
2012-07-19 17:58 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-19 19:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-04 11:58 ` Andrey Kotlarski
2013-01-18 23:30 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-01-18 23:52 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-01-19 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-01-19 10:18 ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-19 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-19 12:47 ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-19 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-19 19:00 ` Paul Eggert
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