Re: Buffer size limitation in insdel.c

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> We have this in insdel.c:make_gap_larger:
>
>   { EMACS_INT total_size = Z_BYTE - BEG_BYTE + GAP_SIZE + nbytes_added;
>     if (total_size < 0
>       /* Don't allow a buffer size that won't fit in a Lisp integer.  */
>       || total_size != XINT (make_number (total_size))
>       /* Don't allow a buffer size that won't fit in an int
>          even if it will fit in a Lisp integer.
>          That won't work because so many places still use `int'.  */
>       || total_size != (EMACS_INT) (int) total_size)
>       error ("Buffer exceeds maximum size");
>
> "bzr annotate" says this was committed a year ago by Stefan.
>
> Any objections to removing this limitation on 64-bit machines?

I should think that this would call for a code review of Emacs' C
modules first.

-- 
David Kastrup