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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Chris Hall <chris@web.workinglinux.com>,
	Emacs devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: CANNOT_DUMP support
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:33:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802110433.m1B4XrXw017599@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd4r4ci0t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:14 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  > >> >   > I know that GNUstep is a CANNOT_DUMP platform, and I have been
  > >> >   > informed that there aren't many others left.  Is there a list
  > >> >   > somewhere that I could view?
  > >> >
  > >> > No list, just grep emacs/src/m/*
  > >> 
  > >> Ah.  Thanks.
  > >> 
  > >> Hmm.  System/390, amdx86-64, ia-64, m68k.  
  > 
  > > Nope, look again, all those are either commented out or inside #if 0.
  > 
  > > The only remaining one is in ibmrs6000.h when using sysV. I don't know
  > > of any such system in current use ...
  > 
  > Yup: CANNOT_DUMP is not on the way out, but it's only ever seriously
  > used for targets that are "in development".
  > We need to get dumping to work on GNUstep before we can consider it as
  > "ready for prime time" (tho I don't consider it as a prerequisite for
  > being on the trunk).

Has there been any decision about merging that code?  It would probably
be better to merge it sooner rather than later...




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-11  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-10  6:35 CANNOT_DUMP support Chris Hall
2008-02-10 17:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-11  1:36   ` Chris Hall
2008-02-11  1:48     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-11  3:04       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-11  4:33         ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-02-11 19:18           ` Chris Hall
2008-02-12 22:30             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-13 16:33               ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-13 19:46                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-14  4:42                   ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14  6:47                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-14  7:44                       ` Chris Hall
2008-02-14  8:13                       ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-15  0:03                         ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-23  5:07                         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-23  6:33                           ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-11  4:26       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-11  0:16 ` Richard Stallman

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