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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2011-10-18 08:55:20 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2011-10-18 08:55:20 -0700
commit0a768890bacef10b9eb806982244044c12392dd9 (patch)
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parent1987bb15c5c4da85bb7f4274e9bc9b716ebf3791 (diff)
downloademacs-0a768890bacef10b9eb806982244044c12392dd9.tar.gz
2 GiB, not 4 GiB, for buffer sizes.
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@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
---
** 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.