Re: bookkeeping to prepare for a 64-bit EMACS_INT on 32-bit hosts

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Well, I beg to differ: I think an eight-fold increase in the size of
> files we can visit on a 32-bit system _is_ a big deal.  At least in
> the year 2011, files larger than 4GB are extremely rare, while files
> larger than 512MB are quite common (I bump into them every day on my
> daytime job).

Will this extension allow us to have (almost) 64-bit Emacs Lisp integers
on 32-bit system?  In that case, I think it's a rather momentous
extension -- there's a lot of numerical data that Gnus has to deal with
(for instance, IMAP sequence numbers) that will overflow, er, 28 bit
data (or whatever the limit is on 32-bit hosts these days), and requires
somewhat awkward work-arounds.

So if I understand this correctly (and I might not do -- it's Friday),
it seems like a really great development.

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