Open lots of files to kill emacs

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From: macrakis
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 1990 01:19

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GNU Emacs 18.53.11 on NeXT 1.0.1

I have a directory which contains 266 files of exactly 100002 bytes
each.  I did dired on this directory, and then set up a keyboard macro
to open each file (f C-x b C-n) and ran it indefinitely (C-u 0 C-x e).
While opening the 173rd file, Emacs dies (window disappears).  By
curious coincidence (?), 172*100002 is just a bit more than 2^24.
Moments before dying, its ps -ux entry was

  macrakis  2510  22.4 34.8 19.3M 5.57M ?  R     1:27 emacs

On the other hand, loading in three files of 7460439 bytes does not
crash Emacs.

Does this happen on other machines?  Or is this a Next problem?

	-s

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