From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: gcl-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: unexec development
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:35:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7345AB9E-1EB7-11D9-B2CE-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54ekk0xebm.fsf@intech19.enhanced.com>
> Greetings! Just another ping on this issue. Is anyone working on
> unexec anymore? Does anyone have interest in doing so?
>
Can you describe what the benefits for Emacs would be? Or why you want
this.
Jan D.
> Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> writes:
>
>> Greetings! Currently, GCL and programs built on top of it
>> (maxima,acl2,axiom), use emacs' unexec by default to save intermediary
>> and final system images. Compiled code is loaded and relocated
>> dynamically at runtime, stored in an expanding .data section via sbrk,
>> and finally dumped with unexec.
>>
>> I would like to extend this functionality if possible to include
>> compiled code which references symbols in external shared libs opened
>> again dynamically at runtime via dlopen. Loading and relocating is
>> straightforward, but somehow I'd need to have unexec write a
>> new relocation record into the final image for each symbol for use by
>> ld.so.
>>
>> Does this sound of interest to emacs too? Does this trigger any ideas
>> as to a possibly better approach?
>>
>> Take care,
>> --
>> Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
>> ======================================================================
>> ====
>> "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." --
>> Baha'u'llah
>>
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>
> --
> Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-03 7:05 info faces for strings and quotations Drew Adams
2004-10-05 7:15 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-05 7:30 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-06 8:34 ` Matt Hodges
2004-10-05 8:58 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-05 11:43 ` Stefan
2004-10-05 11:56 ` Stefan
2004-10-05 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-06 2:25 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-06 4:19 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-06 4:28 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-06 7:40 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-06 21:32 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-06 4:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-06 7:07 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-06 17:07 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-10-06 21:36 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-07 5:53 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-07 6:53 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-07 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-07 15:13 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-07 17:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-08 5:13 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-07 15:13 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-07 16:35 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-08 0:33 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-08 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-08 16:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-09 15:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-08 20:00 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-10-07 5:57 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-07 15:22 ` w3 mode Camm Maguire
2004-10-07 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-07 17:25 ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-07 17:37 ` Mark Plaksin
2004-10-07 17:45 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-10-08 16:05 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-08 17:44 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-07 15:28 ` unexec development Camm Maguire
2004-10-15 14:10 ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-15 14:35 ` Jan D. [this message]
2004-10-15 21:11 ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-16 13:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-06 8:44 ` info faces for strings and quotations Oliver Scholz
2004-10-07 5:55 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-07 7:13 ` Drew Adams
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