From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: maximum buffer size exceeded Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:22:10 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87ejhgdux0.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87veaqr5l2.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188937422 14515 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 20:23:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 20:23:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 04 22:23:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1ISevy-0001Sg-R6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:23:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISevx-0002Z1-1R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISeuv-0001WA-36 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISeut-0001T9-A3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:22:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISeut-0001T0-1X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISeus-0008Ei-LB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:22:30 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-163-125.inter.net.il [84.228.163.125]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id IUS50130 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:21:58 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87veaqr5l2.fsf@kobe.laptop> (message from Giorgos Keramidas on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:13:45 +0300) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47213 Archived-At: > From: Giorgos Keramidas > Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:13:45 +0300 > > Are there plans to make the buffer size use one of the types with "at > least X bits", like uint32_t or uint64_t? If there are such plans, I'm not aware of them. > Do you think there is a good reason *not* to do this (i.e. an absurd > performance penalty on some of the supported platforms)? Performance is one reason; less than universal support for those C9x features is another. I think the current view in Emacs development is that 64-bit platforms solve this problem so easily that its solution for 32-bit machines is much less important than working on other Emacs features.