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[Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r106123: 2 GiB, not 4 GiB, for buffer


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r106123: 2 GiB, not 4 GiB, for buffer sizes.
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:55:20 -0700
User-agent: Bazaar (2.3.1)

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revno: 106123
committer: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Tue 2011-10-18 08:55:20 -0700
message:
  2 GiB, not 4 GiB, for buffer sizes.
modified:
  etc/NEWS
=== modified file 'etc/NEWS'
--- a/etc/NEWS  2011-10-18 15:34:06 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS  2011-10-18 15:55:20 +0000
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@
 ---
 ** There is a new configure option --with-wide-int.
 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
-On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from 512 MiB to
-a bit less than 4 GiB, with the exact limit set by the operating system.
+On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
+to about 2 GiB.
 
 ---
 ** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available.


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