bug#69952: [PATCH] Support pdumping compiled queries by dumping their source

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

Ping!  Daniel and Yuan, any comments on this proposal?

> Cc: 69952@debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
>  Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 09:08:21 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 03:27:18 +0000
> > From: Sergey Vinokurov <serg.foo@gmail.com>
> > 
> > This patch aims to allow more things to be dumped. In particular, 
> > compiled treesitter queries can be easily dumped by storing their source 
> > so that they will be recompiled on load.
> > 
> > I noticed that in my config compiled quires are created somewhere which 
> > prevents me dumping with standard Emacs build. But with this patch I can 
> > dump successfully and not bother finding out who produced the queries.
> > 
> > It seems like there should be no drawbacks in allowing more things to be 
> > dumped, please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Thanks.  I added Daniel and Yuan to the discussion, in case they have
> comments.
> 
> And I have a question: what happens if the pdumper file dumped with
> tree-sitter available is loaded by an Emacs session in which
> tree-sitter is not available?  That can happen on Windows, for
> example, if the tree-sitter library or the grammar library required
> for recomputing the query is not available.  I think we need some code
> to prevent Emacs from crashing on startup in that case.
> 
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