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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:26:57 -0400
> 
> That reminds me: I think ideally, we should see the pdmp files as the
> executables and the temacs file as a runtime library (after all,
> a single temacs file can be used with several different pdmp files).
> 
> If we could find a nice&portable way to turn the pdmp files into
> executables, then that would be The Right Way.

I'd rather we didn't mess with binary files and didn't produce
executables except by running the system linker on object files
created by some system compiler.  Otherwise we will slip back towards
the kind of problems we had with unexec.