From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing the Emacs executable Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:54:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83fvyq4es6.fsf@gnu.org> <83k3ny1hl3.fsf@gnu.org> <31mwsubb7b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83ip3i1gut.fsf@gnu.org> <33A901B8-67E3-4C81-BF5B-7C9B4A8836E1@raeburn.org> <83haivx3hd.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366829669 27199 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2013 18:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ken Raeburn , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 24 20:54:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UV4ps-0002yE-6a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:54:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37431 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UV4pr-0001A5-SR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:54:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UV4pl-000189-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UV4pg-0004E2-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:1702) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UV4pb-0004Cb-Hl; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:54:15 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpYYW/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kLodwBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpYYW/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kLodwBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="8207298" Original-Received: from 69-165-134-22.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.134.22]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 24 Apr 2013 14:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 454F167A3A; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:54:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83haivx3hd.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:06:38 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159160 Archived-At: > In any case, I thought the tendency was to stay away of tricks that > are too specific to binary formats, to avoid re-living the unexec > problem... It shouldn't be too hard to come up with a solution that does not rely on tricks. Or at least, no new tricks. E.g. store the preloaded docstrings in a second "pure heap" (we could even just use the existing pure heap, but if we want to keep those VM pages on disk, we'd like to keep them "geographically" separate). Stefan