From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preview: portable dumper Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:32:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83lgw0pbmv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <047a67ec-9e29-7e4e-0fb0-24c3e59b5886@dancol.org> <83zikjxt1j.fsf@gnu.org> <8360n6ruzu.fsf@gnu.org> <0839b53b-4607-144f-3746-db054a29c1cd@cs.ucla.edu> <83zikiqdu5.fsf@gnu.org> <834m2orkhn.fsf@gnu.org> <96a00b2f-4012-5e66-9d67-7644039600e2@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480563177 17957 195.159.176.226 (1 Dec 2016 03:32:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 03:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 01 04:32:51 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCI77-0003Uz-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:32:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47875 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCI7B-0000qT-IK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:32:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCI75-0000qO-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:32:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCI70-0000j0-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:32:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39121) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCI70-0000iw-IF; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:32:42 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3125 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cCI6s-0007oD-1g; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:32:34 -0500 In-reply-to: <96a00b2f-4012-5e66-9d67-7644039600e2@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:06:11 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209856 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:06:11 -0800 > > However, this is not simply an efficiency issue. Emacs currently does > not run on FreeBSD arm64 because of the unexec problem (Bug#24892) Let's get our facts straight, shall we? First, Emacs never worked on that platform, and second, the current reason is that they removed a certain library function, which happens to be called by unexec. Removal of a library function can break any part of Emacs.