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Re: Problem with large UID numbers
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Problem with large UID numbers |
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Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:15:15 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:18:20 +0100 Andreas Most <Andreas.Most@nospam.invalid>
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AM> I found the following comment in the code:
AM> ;; Todo:
AM> ;;
AM> ;; o Parse UIDs as strings? We need to overcome the 28 bit limit somehow.
AM> That doesn't solve the problem but it answers the question...
AM> As I have read in the EmacsWiki there seems to be a general problem with
AM> the limited size:
AM> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsFileSizeLimit
AM> Maybe it is possible to use floating point variables instead of integer
AM> as a workaround.
I'm trying to get large ints into the next Emacs somehow as support for
a "very large file" mode (not modifying the regular integer type).
Maybe they can be used for this as well. There's a thread on emacs-devel.
Ted