From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs 22.1 on hp-ux 11.11 core dumps when DISPLAY not set Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:05:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1B2B2EF98D55CB41BD16F13B18B9B0080303EEB4@FFBRUE001.cfmu.corp.eurocontrol.int> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189150005 18410 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2007 07:26:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: philippe.waroquiers@eurocontrol.int, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 09:26:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITYEi-00061P-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:26:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITYEg-0006L9-8P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITYEb-0006Ke-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITYEa-0006K2-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITYEa-0006Jz-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:26:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITYEZ-0001Ho-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITXuA-0001Ka-Pn; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:05:26 -0400 X-Spook: NATO csystems Glock Peking clones SDI Merlin event X-Ran: W@/f7P_;v}";'i$8Ohp4ml;Sk@am!()^v6vp/4e[:@Xce\+Fbi'@:_;Q9P~J~SB,V^QrRk X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:32:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78107 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > If the values never change, it is ok to have an initializer. > Variables with initializer may be put in pure space when Emacs is > dumped. I really meant: if they are explicitly initialized and never change, is there any need to move them to file scope? In that case, they don't actually have to _be_ static, AFAICS, so it's no problem if the HPUX stuff defines "static" as a no-op.