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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dumper problems and a possible solutions
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:43:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbntgsmb5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140625202403.GB179@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (Rich Felker's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:24:03 -0400")

> With the approach of dumping a C array containing references to
> offsets within itself, this is completely transparent to the
> application. The linker (ld) produces the right R_${ARCH}_RELATIVE
> relocation records in the data segment and the dynamic linker applies
> them at runtime.

Two problems, here:
- we're still talking about performing relocation of all heap references
  during startup (not that it's a problem, of course).  Maybe we don't
  need to do it ourselves, but it still has to happen.
- Can the ld.so loader generate the *tagged* references used in the heap?


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-25 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-24 17:19 Dumper problems and a possible solutions Rich Felker
2014-06-24 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-24 19:40   ` Rich Felker
2014-06-24 20:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-24 21:15       ` Rich Felker
2014-06-24 21:37         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-25 18:03 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-25 18:08   ` Rich Felker
2014-06-25 18:30     ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-25 18:36       ` Rich Felker
2014-06-25 18:36       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-25 18:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-26  0:16     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-06-25 18:20   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-25 18:32     ` Rich Felker
2014-06-25 18:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-25 19:03         ` Rich Felker
2014-06-25 19:18           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-25 19:57             ` Rich Felker
2014-06-25 20:15               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-25 20:34                 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-26  2:44                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-26  4:28                     ` Rich Felker
2014-06-26 15:02                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-25 20:11             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-25 20:06           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-25 20:24             ` Rich Felker
2014-06-25 21:43               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-06-25 22:07                 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-25 23:04                   ` Paul Eggert
2014-06-25 23:21                     ` Rich Felker
2014-06-25 23:05                   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-25 23:19                     ` Rich Felker
2014-06-26  3:02                   ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-26  4:14                     ` Rich Felker
2014-06-26  4:32                       ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-26 11:49                         ` Rich Felker
2014-06-26 15:03                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-26 15:10                           ` Rich Felker
2014-06-25 22:33               ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-25 20:53       ` Samuel Bronson
2014-06-25 21:24         ` Rich Felker
2014-06-25 18:38   ` Stefan Monnier

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