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: Buffer size limitation in insdel.c Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:06:12 +0200 Message-ID: <834odivv7v.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285157185 6543 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2010 12:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:06:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 22 14:06:22 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyO5c-0005lt-Op for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:06:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53062 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyO5c-0007Vx-AB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37366 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyO5V-0007Pq-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyO5T-0002Md-Rd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:64790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyO5T-0002M7-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:06:11 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L9500B00DKSNB00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:06:10 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.203.3]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L9500AAYDM9RFD0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:06:10 +0200 (IST) X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130607 Archived-At: We have this in insdel.c:make_gap_larger: { EMACS_INT total_size = Z_BYTE - BEG_BYTE + GAP_SIZE + nbytes_added; if (total_size < 0 /* Don't allow a buffer size that won't fit in a Lisp integer. */ || total_size != XINT (make_number (total_size)) /* Don't allow a buffer size that won't fit in an int even if it will fit in a Lisp integer. That won't work because so many places still use `int'. */ || total_size != (EMACS_INT) (int) total_size) error ("Buffer exceeds maximum size"); "bzr annotate" says this was committed a year ago by Stefan. Any objections to removing this limitation on 64-bit machines?