Re: Patch: Promoting characters to 31 bits (for discussion)
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
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Note that no editor on 32-bit systems can grok a >2G buffer
because of
limited pointer size. Thus a 1G limit is just one step below the
"theoretical" limit. You can argue that being two steps below it is
not much worse, but I am not really convinced.
O.K. Since size matters to you, how about another alternative? What
would/could we gain or lose by using long long as EMACS_INTs on 32 bit
architectures?
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