Remove upper bound on how many bytes/characters can be read #541
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The limit was added to prevent people creating arbitrarily large buffers (for instance, handle.read(2^31) would create a 2GB char array). For "large" counts, we now read in blocks of size 8192, adding to an extendable buffer.
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The limit was added to prevent people creating arbitrarily large buffers (for instance,
handle.read(2^31)would create a 2GB char array). For "large" counts, we now read in blocks of size 8192, adding to an extendable buffer.See also cc-tweaked/CC-Tweaked#29