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authorGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2011-05-04 21:00:38 -0700
committerGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2011-05-04 21:00:38 -0700
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Merge from emacs-23; up to 2010-06-10T05:17:21Z!rgm@gnu.org.
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@@ -15,11 +15,7 @@ You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news'
with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n.
-* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.3
-
-** New configure option --with-crt-dir specifies the location of your
-crt*.o files, if they are in a non-standard location. This is only
-used on x86-64 and s390x GNU/Linux architectures.
+* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.4
** The MS-Windows build prefers libpng version 1.14 or later.
Versions of libpng before 1.14 had security issues, so we now
@@ -28,6 +24,21 @@ require version 1.14 or later. See README.W32 and nt/INSTALL for
details and pointers to URLs where the latest libpng can be
downloaded.
+
+* Changes in Emacs 23.4 on non-free operating systems
+
+** The MS-Windows port can now use more than 500MB of heap.
+Depending on the available virtual memory, Emacs on Windows can now
+have up to 2GB of heap space. This allows, e.g., to visit several
+large (> 256MB) files in the same session.
+
+
+* Installation Changes in Emacs 23.3
+
+** New configure option --with-crt-dir specifies the location of your
+crt*.o files, if they are in a non-standard location. This is only
+used on x86-64 and s390x GNU/Linux architectures.
+
* Changes in Emacs 23.3
** The last-resort backup file `%backup%~' is now written to