From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36649: 27.0.50; pure space and pdumper Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 22:17:22 +0300 Message-ID: <83zgwz224d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d03kaz6f.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7svc87d.fsf@igel.home> <87sg5bt1bp.fsf@gmail.com> <4c1248b8-88cc-ca06-6bc8-9f0bb9a98c98@cs.ucla.edu> <87mtt0hupl.fsf@gnus.org> <83mtt02dyz.fsf@gnu.org> <877dk3hoko.fsf@gnus.org> <87y2cjg9mu.fsf@gnus.org> <83a6oz3lpm.fsf@gnu.org> <837dk33kzg.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20002"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, rpluim@gmail.com, stefan@marxist.se, schwab@linux-m68k.org, pipcet@gmail.com, 36649@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, akrl@sdf.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 12 21:47:58 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lgupq-00055d-3W for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 12 May 2021 21:47:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43606 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lgupp-0003oT-45 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 12 May 2021 15:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lguMs-00072r-DW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2021 15:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57309) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lguMs-00047a-4S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2021 15:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lguMs-0003q3-06 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2021 15:18:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 19:18:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36649 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 36649-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36649.162084706514244 (code B ref 36649); Wed, 12 May 2021 19:18:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36649) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 May 2021 19:17:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40622 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lguMV-0003dU-5k for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2021 15:17:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48154) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lguMT-0003Yq-4G for 36649@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2021 15:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lguMN-0003rS-8s; Wed, 12 May 2021 15:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3461 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lguMK-0002FN-O8; Wed, 12 May 2021 15:17:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 12 May 2021 15:07:42 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:206388 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, pipcet@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, > rpluim@gmail.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, stefan@marxist.se, > 36649@debbugs.gnu.org, akrl@sdf.org > Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 15:07:42 -0400 > > > I just don't want to risk that, not at all. Because if we are missing > > something, it will require efforts I'd rather put elsewhere. > > I can see a risk that removing purespace will break unexec because of > some oversight of some detail somewhere (simply because it's > a configuration that's basically never tested), but I can't imagine the > breakage to be hard to fix: running without purespace has been used > during the bootstrap for many many years, both with pdump and with > unexec, so it's really not "special". Last time I needed to fix a breakage in the unexec build it took a non-trivial effort, and would have probably taken even more, had I not been fortunate to have a user who could investigate the problems on his own and present clear and correct causes of the problems. So my bitter experience doesn't confirm your optimism.