Re: Buffer size limitation in insdel.c

[Richard Stallman]

    The reason for this code is that many places use an int to hold buffer
    positions.  All these places are bugs; they should use EMACS_INT
    instead.  This code hides those bugs.

I'd say it prevents them from really being bugs.

If people want to fix those places to handle larger buffers,
I have no objections.  However, I doubt your physical memory will
support very many 2-gig strings.