Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; 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?