From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com,
schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dumping unexec (was: Question about pure space)
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:14:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86pluk86kd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmspoqhia.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 09:43:32 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>, Eli
> Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> rpluim@gmail.com, schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 09:43:32 -0400
>
> >> Can I ask what the problem with removing unexec is?
> > The pdumper has not been ported to several configurations,
> > e.g. Windows 9x and DJGPP.
>
> IIUC, adding support for the pdumper to these systems should be fairly
> simple, consisting mostly of replacing calls to `mmap` with
> `malloc+read`.
It should be, yes. Especially since the malloc implementation is
already in pdumper, AFAIR.
> Has someone with access to such systems tried that?
> Is there some more serious issue?
I think the most serious issue is to find the volunteer(s) to do this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-20 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-18 15:01 Question about pure space Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-18 15:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-04-18 15:37 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-19 15:48 ` Robert Pluim
2024-04-19 16:32 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-19 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-04-19 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-20 5:42 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-20 6:17 ` Po Lu
2024-04-20 13:43 ` Dumping unexec (was: Question about pure space) Stefan Monnier
2024-04-20 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-04-20 14:44 ` Dumping unexec Po Lu
2024-04-20 15:10 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-20 6:25 ` Question about pure space Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-20 6:38 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-04-20 19:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-04-21 8:56 ` James Le Cuirot
2024-04-20 23:31 ` Richard Stallman
2024-04-21 5:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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