# HG changeset patch # User Stefan Monnier # Date 1063395871 0 # Node ID 96d237d6be000f11aeab70b4d20217fbf3aa5249 # Parent 04f194e85b4dbf2183db2c4e4ddaa506c467a8e4 *** empty log message *** diff -r 04f194e85b4d -r 96d237d6be00 etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Fri Sep 12 15:55:47 2003 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Fri Sep 12 19:44:31 2003 +0000 @@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ * Changes in Emacs 21.4 +** The max size of buffers and integers has been doubled. +On 32bit machines, it is now 256M (i.e. 268435455). + ** Under XFree86 4, the display table is modified so that `' is displayed as balanced quotes, not the ASCII glyphs whose shape has been changed generally in the XFree86 fonts. diff -r 04f194e85b4d -r 96d237d6be00 etc/PROBLEMS --- a/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Sep 12 15:55:47 2003 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Sep 12 19:44:31 2003 +0000 @@ -588,7 +588,8 @@ * Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run. This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted -via NFS. Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of +via NFS, for some combinations of NFS client and NFS server. +Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of binary null characters, and the `file' utility says: emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators