From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [patch] mem_node shrink #2 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:48:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <46851196181248@webmail21.yandex.ru> <474EDE17.4080000@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196362130 5109 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2007 18:48:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Antipov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 29 19:48:56 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 1IxoRS-0003PA-Lj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:48:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxoRC-0005VN-SZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:48:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IxoR8-0005UJ-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:48:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IxoR8-0005Tb-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:48:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxoR7-0005TX-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:48:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IxoR3-0004Nz-AI; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:48:29 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5FC2CF7A0; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:48:27 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E255A3FE1; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:48:21 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CCB386CAAF; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:48:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <474EDE17.4080000@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Antipov's message of "Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:43:19 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:84315 Archived-At: > +/* Otherwise, every region which is passed to mem_insert is never larger > + than 256M, so it's size fits into BITS_PER_INT - 4 bits wide bit field. */ Is that true? Why is it the case? On 64bit systems we can have buffers larger than 256MB. Stefan