Big buffers

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From: macrakis
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 1990 18:16

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GNU Emacs 18.53.11 on NeXT 1.0.1 has no problem reading in very large
buffers (> 15M), and doing searches in them; however, many other
commands get confused presumably because of integer wraparound.  For
instance, end-of-buffer doesn't go to the end, but rather the
beginning, ...; forward search for something near the end words, but
backwards wrapped search doesn't, ...

Is this expected to be fixed, or will 24-bit restrictions be with us
for a long time?

File:

  -rw-r--r--  1 macrakis 15641348 Jun 17 19:09 alldict

what-cursor-position:

Char: F (0106)  point=1 of -1135868(-567934%) x=0

list-buffers:

 MR Buffer         Size  Mode           File
 -- ------         ----  ----           ----
.   alldict	   -1135868 Fundamental	/tmp/alldict

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