[Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r106122: Mention buffer size limit --with-wide-int on 32-bit hosts.

[Paul Eggert]

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revno: 106122
committer: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Tue 2011-10-18 08:34:06 -0700
message:
  Mention buffer size limit --with-wide-int on 32-bit hosts.
modified:
  etc/NEWS

=== modified file 'etc/NEWS'
--- a/etc/NEWS  2011-10-18 06:52:32 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS  2011-10-18 15:34:06 +0000
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
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 ** There is a new configure option --with-wide-int.
 With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
+On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from 512 MiB to
+a bit less than 4 GiB, with the exact limit set by the operating system.
 
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 ** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available.