From: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Requirements for native-compile support
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 07:40:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xjfim3rrq8c.fsf@sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83im3taar6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 08 May 2021 11:30:05 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Andrea,
>
> Do we need libgccjit only for compiling to *.eln, or do we also need
> it for loading and executing the *.eln files?
>
> IOW, if Emacs was built with libgccjit, but the library isn't
> available at run time, will Emacs still be able to load and run *.eln
> files that were produced elsewhere (assuming the native code is
> compatible with the platform where it will be run)?
We don't use libgccjit for loading elns file but we still have libgccjit
as a dependency because ATM Emacs may need to compile a trampoline if a
primitive is redefined or advised. If it's important to support native
builds with no libgccjit available we should redesign this specific
mechanism.
Regards
Andrea
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2021-05-08 8:30 Requirements for native-compile support Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-10 7:40 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
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