From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: maximum buffer size exceeded Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:44:58 +0200 Message-ID: <851wdcgxet.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87ejhgdux0.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87veaqr5l2.fsf@kobe.laptop> <873axt1e6d.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189057540 31896 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 05:45:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:45:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 07:45:40 2007 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 4.50) id 1ITABI-0005bh-Tr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:45:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITABH-0008DE-An for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:45:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITABC-0008Bw-9B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITABA-0008AY-5h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:45:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITABA-0008AR-2P; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.44]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITAB1-0006Gg-KT; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACDD17F989; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:45:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.48]) by mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D969B2DAB40; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:45:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-055-071.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.55.71]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417512C29E3; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:45:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id A10261CAD71B; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:44:58 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 06 Sep 2007 00\:59\:38 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4170/Thu Sep 6 06:30:09 2007 on mail-in-08.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:77943 gmane.emacs.help:47266 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > The only drawback I can see is that Lisp_Objects have to be allocated > on 16 byte boundaries rather than the current 8 byte boundary, so a > little space may be wasted (and maybe not...). > > For cons cells and floats, it would mean half the space is wasted. Maybe we'll need one higher order bit after all. Or we let every cons cell have a siamese twin float in its second half. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum