Re: nnml corruption in move to emacs 21?

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Mar 31 2005, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I'd expect problems if the count exceeds the largest Lisp integer.
>> ,----[ C-h v most-positive-fixnum RET ]
>> | most-positive-fixnum's value is 268435455
>
> Note that this value changes between different versions of Emacs.

Yes, I know.  But all off them should be significantly larger than
30,000 (the number of messages Todd mentioned).

> In Emacs versions before 19.34, the value was typically 8388607, whereas in
> versions until 21.4, it's typically 134217728 (and in Emacs-CVS it's as
> shown above).  But even that changes on 64bit systems (e.g. on my amd64
> system, it says 2305843009213693951).

On my amd64 it is 1152921504606846975.  I guess your built isn't a
plain version from the trunk?

Bye, Reiner.
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