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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pure space
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 05:10:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkaMse75UE_yqPj9rDSSbM8GogErhoKWZx1GYJk2YMxVQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v7zzk1lf.fsf@yahoo.com>

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Portable dumping doesn't function on Windows 98 or DOS.  Please fix or
> implement pdumper on these two platforms first, or hack their unexec
> builds not to require pure space, which should not be terribly
> difficult.

In my view, that's not a blocker for removing the unexec build.

We would take patches to fix MS-DOS and/or Windows 98, I think.

> Moreover, whatever becomes of the portable ELF unexec should
> not affect the Solaris unexec, which is provided by the operating system
> and should function without the likes of gmalloc.

AFAIK, the portable dumper is the default also on Solaris, so there is
no need to keep the unexec build around just for that platform.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-17 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-16 19:07 Pure space Pip Cet
2024-08-17  6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17  6:59   ` Stefan Kangas
2024-08-17  8:14     ` Po Lu
2024-08-17 12:10       ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2024-08-17 12:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 13:36           ` Po Lu
2024-08-17 14:12             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17  8:45   ` Pip Cet
2024-08-17 10:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 11:38       ` Pip Cet
2024-08-17 13:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 13:26           ` Pip Cet
2024-08-17 14:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 14:35               ` Pip Cet
2024-08-17 13:11     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-08-17 14:30       ` Pip Cet
2024-08-17 15:34         ` Andrea Corallo
2024-08-17 15:41           ` Pip Cet
2024-08-17  8:16 ` Po Lu
2024-08-17  8:28   ` Po Lu
2024-08-17  8:31     ` Po Lu
2024-08-17  8:57     ` Pip Cet
2024-08-17 11:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 10:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 11:46     ` Po Lu
2024-08-17 12:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 13:44         ` Po Lu
2024-08-17 14:17           ` Eli Zaretskii

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