From 1987bb15c5c4da85bb7f4274e9bc9b716ebf3791 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:34:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Mention buffer size limit --with-wide-int on 32-bit hosts. --- etc/NEWS | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 5592fe325ff..6d6efa7c1ce 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -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. -- 2.39.2