From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bookkeeping to prepare for a 64-bit EMACS_INT on 32-bit hosts Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:32:54 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <4DBA71FB.5090900@cs.ucla.edu> <83mxj97889.fsf@gnu.org> <4DBA7F87.5040609@cs.ucla.edu> <838vut6l1t.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304098407 12963 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2011 17:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:33:27 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 29 19:33:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrZ8-0005uj-Lb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:33:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrZ8-0004K3-6S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58078) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrZ4-0004Jy-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrZ3-0001rk-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:33:14 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41109) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrZ3-0001rc-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFrYw-0005li-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:33:06 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no ([84.215.51.58]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:33:06 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:33:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEU3IBXZ8vK94+aMZkme ppWy0tOVZtnhAAACVUlEQVQ4jWWUy3IjIQxFVYPnA6Dc+2mN2ZNA9k4Qe0Pg/39lroQzjxrKrmrr tKSrByZpbS4pItJmY156GIemKJAhTS1x1lQ2WPqqjHPyGswxEdHFgNnbx3lwxM9P0vNhAGb54O71 NU4GXpk9QGvSwjjUHs1O39h7mlOzxiWa8kbOAXz3AAs542qLoZV/5lxySpfTqyqVOYal+FHzu9Ts NPmtaYxodn7U0j/zBmv1rtUOPjWUa8klLYSG9HP0CJc++JGoQLF5xNZ76D74I8TxIFdqtkJots6j H4uD7/xw2giiopWvEfWDWjjcneRS3RPAONFGFXYn9D87bSPAsX4P4U4Zx/pLptQO5D5IK4eswYQx mdn7M/BPcupAFwXIoS4nGhduZHWQ+4DctV0MxD0Ph1HRzrqB97cneAWIf4MrrAkfgDmG918goOVQ 5SpCNWT2JgromKgPQBTo24G9Qe+L1IpiGpPGD2oMlkQWupuxczQ24O0QPhdiZXSWnv34krUQC+1q /wMBuP8DxO8SVVeR9QeknT0A5JobYafMfqOXbuiqOXIhm1Fc8ZPycXpNdN1ANxcNXtWll7ajzVxK JVwCWbNN7N9ldQPHUd4EF8cOAjtqT+AX2pw3sB3Ygq05BrAyRcFbeBI4HlikWrBlCoqPOxZ0X5Gj 7hTYZyg8nx5XXb0NdNfwBPvZJ1cDE7mTrq3YFxNJhbD2CIZJX2o1hUDvhTIGrxNwcM2QN3FN13yR DaqkXDXSmy3diMXfkbLWquFcwURxofBng2dUKy7VPFURqN0C2x/6BVA4xtY6rSduAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beyonc=E9's?= _B'day_: "Deja Vu" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PiSfoL6vh7mLDm3wBMjMZhI2Fsc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:138908 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Well, I beg to differ: I think an eight-fold increase in the size of > files we can visit on a 32-bit system _is_ a big deal. At least in > the year 2011, files larger than 4GB are extremely rare, while files > larger than 512MB are quite common (I bump into them every day on my > daytime job). Will this extension allow us to have (almost) 64-bit Emacs Lisp integers on 32-bit system? In that case, I think it's a rather momentous extension -- there's a lot of numerical data that Gnus has to deal with (for instance, IMAP sequence numbers) that will overflow, er, 28 bit data (or whatever the limit is on 32-bit hosts these days), and requires somewhat awkward work-arounds. So if I understand this correctly (and I might not do -- it's Friday), it seems like a really great development. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/