SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes in
xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
  ...
 > 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? 
We would lose portability and speed.  Quite unacceptable,
unfortunately.  :-(