From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preview: portable dumper Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:18:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <047a67ec-9e29-7e4e-0fb0-24c3e59b5886@dancol.org> <83zikjxt1j.fsf@gnu.org> <8360n6ruzu.fsf@gnu.org> <834m2nplmb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480645135 31918 195.159.176.226 (2 Dec 2016 02:18:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 02:18:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 02 03:18:51 2016 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 1cCdR4-0007l0-UA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:18:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCdR8-0000oW-Cj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38020) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCdQW-0000oO-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:18:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCdQT-0001px-NE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:18:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56803 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCdQT-0001pX-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:18:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCdQM-0000yX-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:18:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:vzm37O7jbg3U8w51DukEGtaZf3U= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:209898 Archived-At: > It's a new and significant mechanism, which is central to building and > starting Emacs. It needs to be studied, understood, and maintained. FWIW, I looked at Daniel's code and found it understandable, whereas I never managed to make any sense of the unexec code, which still just looks like magical voodoo to me, despite my trying twice to understand it. Stefan