Re: Fatal error (11).

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From: Joe Wells
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 1990 05:22

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In article <9008120125.AA10462@noname> eric%yamada-sun@CSE.OGI.EDU writes:

   Create an file that consists of nothing but 8388608 nulls.  Call it
   `empty'.  Then do
	   % emacs -q empty
	   ESC ESC
   I got a Fatal error(11). , and then a segmentation fault.

Neat!

Emacs is known not to handle files larger than 8 Meg properly, but I
didn't know it core dumped on them.

What we really need are plain old Lisp "bignums", so there wouldn't be
arbitrary size restrictions any more.

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@uswest.com>

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