File size limit on the notepad ++ 7 X64 ?

[Gontran Aberdeen]

Hello,

I was hoping to be able to open bigger files with the X64 version of notepad 7.x, it seems still to be limited to 2 gigabyte.

Is there any way to improve that ?

Thanks.

[Claudia Frank]

@Gontran-Aberdeen

no, this is a hardcoded limit. From buffer.cpp

if (bufferSizeRequested > INT_MAX)
    {
	    ::MessageBox(NULL, TEXT("File is too big to be opened by Notepad++"), TEXT("File size problem"), MB_OK|MB_APPLMODAL);

where INT_MAX = Maximum value for a variable of type int = 2147483647 = 2GB

Cheers
Claudia

[Gontran Aberdeen]

:( and this cannot be increased i gueuss ?

[Claudia Frank]

@Gontran-Aberdeen

welll in theory it can be changed. If you replace INT_MAX by _I64_MAX and some code to
refelct the int to int64 changes you get a max of 9223372036854775807 bytes.
But no one has done this yet.

You could give it a try and ask here for an enhancement.

Cheers
Claudia