[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#8528: closed (24.0.50; 32-bit Emacs with apparent 128M buffer size limit)

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> 24.0.50; 32-bit Emacs with apparent 128M buffer size limit
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> Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:04:06 -0600
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> My understanding is that a 32-bit GNU Emacs should be able
> to open files up to 512 M.  If I am wrong about that, please
> let me know.  I have compiled Emacs trunk from source
> several times in the last couple of months and somewhere in
> the last month or so it seems that the limit on my machine
> has become 128 M.  My math could be off, but on the
> assumption that 128 Mebibytes = 2^27 bytes = 1024 * 131072
> bytes, and starting with emacs -Q I tried:
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>     $ dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=131072
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> and tried to open the file, and got: "Maximum buffer size
> exceeded".  Then I tried one K less:
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>     $ dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=131071
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> and the buffer opened.
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> I have verified using the `top' command that there is
> sufficient free memory for the files.
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> Also, for what it's worth:
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>     ELISP> most-positive-fixnum ==> 536870911
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> I discovered this as a result of not being able to open a
> large (~160Mb) .pdf file that I had earlier been able to
> open.  Please let me know if there is any other information
> I can provide, or if there is something simple I am doing
> wrong.
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> In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.0.8)
>  of 2011-04-19 on braintron
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11001000
> configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3''
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Re: bug#8528: 24.0.50;	32-bit Emacs with apparent 128M buffer size limit
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> > Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:20:54 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
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> > If no one objects, I will commit these changes in a week or so.
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> No one objected, so I installed this.
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