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From: "Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
To: "Paul Eggert" <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:32:30 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51964.130.55.132.62.1302611550.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA3DDCD.10700@cs.ucla.edu>

>> When Emacs saves a buffer or some its portion,
>> write-region can call emacs_write (though a_write and e_write) with
>> the full extent of the region to be saved.
>
> Ah, sorry, I missed that one.  In that case 'int'
> clearly won't do for the size.

This has been said several times, apparently assuming that the whole
length _must_ be passed.  But other callers call these functions with
small arguments in a loop.  Can't that be used (with perhaps more like 64
MiB than 64 KiB per call) for these large files too?

Davis

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-12 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-11  8:55 oops? read/write vs type of length parameter Jim Meyering
2011-04-11  9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-11 11:08   ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-11 11:28     ` David Kastrup
2011-04-11 11:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-11 12:27       ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-11 12:31         ` David Kastrup
2011-04-11 21:54           ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-12  4:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12 13:24             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-12 13:29               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12 14:47                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-12 17:00                   ` Large file support (was: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter) Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-14 20:57             ` oops? read/write vs type of length parameter Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-04-11 14:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-11 11:40   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-11 13:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12  1:16       ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-12  3:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12  5:06           ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-12  5:46             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12  8:19             ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-12  9:41               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12 15:53                 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-12 16:56                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12 23:55                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-13  5:14                   ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-13  6:31                     ` Jim Meyering
2011-04-13  6:37                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-13  8:15                       ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-13  9:46                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-13 16:06                           ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-13 17:22                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-13 19:31                               ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-13 19:59                               ` PJ Weisberg
2011-04-14  4:49                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-13 20:02                               ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-13  6:49                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-13 14:35                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-15 13:13                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-15 16:34                         ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-15 18:20                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-15  1:29                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-15  8:55                     ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-15  9:41                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-15 10:24                         ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-12 12:32             ` Davis Herring [this message]
2011-04-12 13:38               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12 15:43                 ` Paul Eggert

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