> I remembered seeing something in pdumper.c that could be related, namely
>
>   /* Start the cold section.  This section contains bytes that should
>      never change and so can be direct-mapped from the dump without
>      special processing.  */
>   dump_drain_cold_data (ctx);
>
> And if you follow that function you'll see that it treats charsets
> specially.
>
> I find the comment about directly mapping very suspicious, when the
> charset contains a Lisp_Object, possibly requiring relocation. But it
> could well be that I misundertand something here.

Hmm... would a patch like the one below fix the problem, then?


        Stefan