Newsgroup with large article numbers

Newsgroup with large article numbers

[Bob Babcock]

Gnus doesn't seem to like article numbers greater than hex 7ffffff 
(134,217,727 decimal).  This is 4 bits sooner than I would expect it to 
break, but I see references to emacs using 28-bit integers so it must be 
using the last few bits for something else.  I wouldn't normally use gnus 
for newsgroups with this many messages, but when I did try it, gnus thought 
there were no new messages.  Is there a workaround?

I see this behavior with:
gnus 5.9.0, emacs 21.3.1, Win/2K
gnus 5.8.8, emacs 20.7.1, RedHat Linux 7.1 (x86)

Re: Newsgroup with large article numbers

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Bob Babcock <wssddc@nospam.gis.net> writes:

> Gnus doesn't seem to like article numbers greater than hex 7ffffff 
> (134,217,727 decimal).  This is 4 bits sooner than I would expect it to 
> break, but I see references to emacs using 28-bit integers so it must be 
> using the last few bits for something else.  I wouldn't normally use gnus 
> for newsgroups with this many messages, but when I did try it, gnus thought 
> there were no new messages.  Is there a workaround?

Nope.  But with Emacs 22, you can read twice as many articles before
Emacs keels over.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Newsgroup with large article numbers

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Gnus doesn't seem to like article numbers greater than hex 7ffffff
>> (134,217,727 decimal).  This is 4 bits sooner than I would expect it to
>> break, but I see references to emacs using 28-bit integers so it must be
>> using the last few bits for something else.  I wouldn't normally use gnus
>> for newsgroups with this many messages, but when I did try it, gnus thought
>> there were no new messages.  Is there a workaround?
> Nope.

Of course there is: use a 64bit system.


        Stefan