From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bignum speedup patch causes crash at startup
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 20:50:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lg8hf3dy.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83tvn5xicp.fsf@gnu.org
On Tue 04 Sep 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:37:39 +0100
>>
>> As this patch moves init of bignum allocators later in startup, will
>> this cause future problems if bignums are used early in emacs before
>> dumping ?
>
> Yes. Ideally, bignums shouldn't be used at dump time at all, but if
> we must, they should be used only after the call to init_bignum.
Tom added support in commit fb26c9fd69 ("Make purecopy work for
bignums"), so if that causes problems then it may need to be revisited.
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-04 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-04 14:21 Bignum speedup patch causes crash at startup Andy Moreton
2018-09-04 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-04 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-04 18:59 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-05 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-05 7:31 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-04 16:40 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-04 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-04 17:37 ` Andy Moreton
2018-09-04 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-04 19:50 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2018-09-04 21:11 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-04 22:34 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-05 0:09 ` Andy Moreton
2018-09-05 0:56 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-05 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-05 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-04 19:56 ` Andy Moreton
2018-09-04 20:48 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-05 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-05 15:40 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-05 15:50 ` Pip Cet
2018-09-05 16:06 ` Paul Eggert
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