On 2016-09-06 15:09, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Clément Pit--Claudel >> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 14:18:38 -0400 >> >>> So we will be giving up the ability of end-users to re-dump their >>> Emacs, unless they have a compiler/binutils installed that are >>> compatible with the ones used to build the Emacs binary? >> >> Does this feature exist? I keep seeing complaints about the fact that it was disabled: > > AFAIR it was disabled because no one cared to fix its quirks wrt ASLR > etc. (or maybe some similar nuisance). Once the dumped data is > portable, those issues will be all but gone. > > Moving to compiled C code will kill that feature for good. Thanks, I understand better now. So ideally when we change the implementation we'll be able to re-enable this feature. Cheers, Clément.