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Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 05:31:14 +0300

> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 20:19:47 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>   address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> Is anybody seriously going to be editing a 540 Mbyte buffer on a
> 32-bit system nowadays?

I do.  But such buffers are not larger than most-positive-fixnum,
because I use a build --with-wide-int, where an Emacs integer is a
64-bit type.

The actual problem is to exceed SIZE_T_MAX, i.e. have a buffer that
cannot be referenced by a single 'char *' pointer.



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