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> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:25:08 +0000
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> We could make garbage collection predictable in this one case, by not
> marking the stack and making dump-emacs-portable a noreturn function.

That'd be a mistake, because our long-term goal is to allow re-dumping
Emacs from a running interactive session.