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Re: feature request: view part of file
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: feature request: view part of file |
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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:18:56 -0800 |
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On 01/18/2013 10:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It's not a bug, it's a fundamental limitation of how Emacs accesses
> buffers. Any valid buffer position _must_ fit into the width of an
> Emacs integer.
Sure, but Vitalie's not asking for large buffer positions,
just for large file offsets. Emac's a bit squirrelly in this
area, as it represents large file offsets by using floating
point numbers, but if it's going to be squirrelly it should
be *consistently* squirrelly, so I installed the attached patch
into the trunk as bzr 111554.
If 64-bit EMACS_INT were the default Vitalie wouldn't have had this
problem. We have a simple fix (change configure so that --with-wide-int
is the default, see Bug#8794) but this most likely would slow Emacs a bit.
Stefan was skeptical and asked for benchmarks, but maybe
I should boost the priority of this. Or, more drastically,
maybe we should bite the bullet and add bignums (Bug#8611);
it can't be *that* hard.
float-offset.txt
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