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authorPaul Eggert <[email protected]>2011-10-18 08:34:06 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <[email protected]>2011-10-18 08:34:06 -0700
commit1987bb15c5c4da85bb7f4274e9bc9b716ebf3791 (patch)
treeac67609c1c9cc51d89a2722ffe429c39c65cc193
parent343a34ff0b237779f41c9164dd4eeb3454d59703 (diff)
Mention buffer size limit --with-wide-int on 32-bit hosts.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
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@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ This is not a new feature; only the configure flag is new.
---
** 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.
---
** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available.