From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file) Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 13:15:28 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <9f0e2424-bac5-32c8-cb53-83f850846f3b@cs.ucla.edu> References: <8A8DA980-13A7-4F8B-9D07-391728C673C9@raeburn.org> <968E8F50-92F6-43C7-B7E4-EE8378943087@raeburn.org> <83wpawmj4d.fsf@gnu.org> <1e397033-8291-1625-8b78-a1e1c200aea5@gmail.com> <18196f08-408d-8b17-423e-8be54507bb84@gmail.com> <8360hkkcgj.fsf@gnu.org> <26b35c16-33e7-0e08-9cc5-6f9b81e40968@cs.ucla.edu> <554fd451-8c5a-755d-1fba-a5473bf2ecfc@cs.ucla.edu> <60D5F708-B068-4D27-8FC5-F73F6AB1C44D@raeburn.org> <36e5ef5d-3ad9-7a30-bf7f-e7467a0af2bf@cs.ucla.edu> <83h903ftpx.fsf@gnu.org> <4d93ecf1-a63e-6718-d8bb-fc175004ba3d@cs.ucla.edu> <837f0zfq9k.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496088975 10940 195.159.176.226 (29 May 2017 20:16:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 20:16:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 Cc: raeburn@raeburn.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 29 22:16:07 2017 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 1dFR5C-0002aP-N7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 22:16:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50376 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFR5H-000143-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 16:16:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFR4j-00013x-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 16:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFR4i-00048m-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 16:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:54640) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFR4d-00047V-HT; Mon, 29 May 2017 16:15:31 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3202160077; Mon, 29 May 2017 13:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id ohYRAudKRu5b; Mon, 29 May 2017 13:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4702A1600C6; Mon, 29 May 2017 13:15:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id iGdisChMNg6S; Mon, 29 May 2017 13:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.188.248]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 26533160077; Mon, 29 May 2017 13:15:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <837f0zfq9k.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:215320 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > This idea requires_generating_ C, something we don't currently do Actually, Emacs generates and reformats C code all the time, e.g., when e= diting=20 and reindenting it. And the Emacs build procedure generates plenty of C c= ode,=20 e.g., lib/stdlib.h. It is not a stretch to assume enough C expertise to d= eal=20 with this sort of thing. > As for whether it will be simple, I reserve my judgment That's discouraging.