From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 38492@debbugs.gnu.org, kevin.legouguec@gmail.com
Subject: bug#38492: 27.0.50; Warn pdumper users when pure space has been overflowed
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:09:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ih3Ez-00036R-Cv@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmubtmj88.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 15 Dec 2019 15:33:30 -0500)
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> >> > We should probably consider just removing the pure space mechanism at
> >> > some point.
> >> Does this mean you agree with removing the warning in startup.el
> >> about overflowed pure space?
> > Yes.
> Why?
> This warning was placed because we needed to disable GC in dumps that
> had overflown the purespace, so the dumped Emacs was not
> fully functional.
If pure space provides some benefit with portable dumping, so we keep
it, we need something to inform developers that we need to increase
the size of pure space. That warning is the way we do that.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-17 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-04 19:02 bug#38492: 27.0.50; Warn pdumper users when pure space has been overflowed Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-12-06 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-06 16:37 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-12-06 16:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-12-06 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-06 19:02 ` dancol
2019-12-07 4:48 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-07 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-15 20:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-15 20:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-12-17 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-14 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-14 14:09 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-12-15 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-15 20:41 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-12-17 3:09 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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