From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: bug#2790: emacs 22.1.1 cannot open 5GB file on 64GB 64-bit GNU/Linux box Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:17:40 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <863actixob.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <3c6c07c20903260850r180e942dscb2c61d1096793f8@mail.gmail.com> <3c6c07c20903270927y5292e32as857233aa1fd75737@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238510508 8300 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2009 14:41:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:41:48 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 31 16:43:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LofB2-0004fP-Ib for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:42:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lof9e-0006e6-N3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:41:30 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net OE2byD+V/4+LQr146WhhyHur/X/yUCshx5TQd/PZkbOGU4jjqkknCcm/KI6oNr3NHrzsfMvaDSMr0IRmS1cBuJ5WI79KLkiLWHUg6MXNQkXf4Nz3Hfefrs9POX5VxGG1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:13:51 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: yci6rjHgB79VA1aaqdo0OQyZelM0ynMTPJWZV6s2nh8= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z2EFeW4DSOYIRYSIB5FXO3WW5y8= sha1:wOg7zFOZWfOqFSUibozUAEp8njA= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 5PdJ2IiSlcKKa1FsmbsFriLFkiG0sBX5QIrn0Ayl0yM= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.bug:54641 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:26774 Archived-At: On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:27:57 -0500 Mike Coleman wrote: MC> Nonetheless, I'd like it to handle much larger files. Is there any MC> real reason not to just turn every (32-bit) "int" into a (64-bit) MC> "long" on 64-bit platforms? There are many other issues, because almost every Emacs package treats the buffer as a small file (scanning and saving are presumed to be cheap). I proposed a large file mode in emacs-devel recently, but any code additions or changes will have to wait until the current pretest is done. Ted