From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:55:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: 2 GiB, not 4 GiB, for buffer sizes. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-24.0.91~83 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0a768890bacef10b9eb806982244044c12392dd9;p=emacs.git 2 GiB, not 4 GiB, for buffer sizes. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 6d6efa7c1ce..330ada4bf73 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -51,8 +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. +On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB +to about 2 GiB. --- ** New translation of the Emacs Tutorial in Hebrew is available.