Re: [AC 21.4] The IA-64 has a large address space.

Moving to XEmacs Design.

>>>>> "vin" == Vin Shelton <[email protected]> writes:

    vin> Is it really guaranteed that a long will hold a value of this
    vin> size, or are there machines where long long would be
    vin> required?

No guarantee.  We already have size detection logic (to determine the
size of EMACSINT).  We should use it to get this right.  Note that
this is likely to get confused with large file support if we ever do
that:-(.

    vin> I'm not really crazy about the use of BSD4_2 as a sentinel
    vin> for the use of getrlimit.

I agree with Vin.



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