From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feature request: view part of file Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:54:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83boclr7bu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lijrszn0.fsf@gnu.org> <87y5npeg4p.fsf@gnu.org> <877gnakr1d.fsf@gmail.com> <8738xykq0d.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358578527 13330 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2013 06:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vitalie Spinu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 19 07:55:45 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TwSL6-0005uT-Vi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:55:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60095 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwSKp-00008y-U5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwSKl-00007w-Nr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:55:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwSKk-0003s5-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:58475) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwSKk-0003s1-HD; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:55:18 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MGV00A001LPJG00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:54:20 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MGV00A9H1UJEL50@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:54:20 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <8738xykq0d.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156465 Archived-At: > From: Vitalie Spinu > 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.