From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CANNOT_DUMP support Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <21315d9f3739f9bb6f6cb41ab80ec90c@lagorda> <200802110148.m1B1mTd0028038@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202699077 5940 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2008 03:04:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:04:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chris Hall , Emacs devel To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 04:05:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOOyZ-0000hk-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:04:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOOy6-00055B-IG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOOy2-00054w-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOOy2-00054k-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOOy2-00054h-Bu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from 76-10-146-187.dsl.teksavvy.com ([76.10.146.187] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOOy1-00059e-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BC738B4033; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200802110148.m1B1mTd0028038@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:48:25 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Greylist: delayed 2384 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:04:25 EST X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88715 Archived-At: >> > > I know that GNUstep is a CANNOT_DUMP platform, and I have been >> > > informed that there aren't many others left. Is there a list >> > > somewhere that I could view? >> > >> > No list, just grep emacs/src/m/* >> >> Ah. Thanks. >> >> Hmm. System/390, amdx86-64, ia-64, m68k. > Nope, look again, all those are either commented out or inside #if 0. > The only remaining one is in ibmrs6000.h when using sysV. I don't know > of any such system in current use ... Yup: CANNOT_DUMP is not on the way out, but it's only ever seriously used for targets that are "in development". We need to get dumping to work on GNUstep before we can consider it as "ready for prime time" (tho I don't consider it as a prerequisite for being on the trunk). Stefan