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: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:07:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200802110433.m1B4XrXw017599@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <033e133313f724a1896d8077e2f73d0d@lagorda> <87y79p4xk2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87y79o7i7u.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87myq46nl9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203743299 1797 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2008 05:08:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: chris@web.workinglinux.com, "Stephen J. Turnbull" , dann@ics.uci.edu, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 23 06:08:43 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 1JSmcs-0005OR-AC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:08:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSmcM-0001MO-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:08:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSmcJ-0001MJ-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSmcH-0001M7-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSmcH-0001M4-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSmcD-0007Dg-La; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:08:01 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAMI4v0dMCpz5Wmdsb2JhbACQUgEgnSqBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,393,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="14874321" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 23 Feb 2008 00:07:59 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.156.249]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id DHE87959; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:07:59 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 644EE8A37; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:07:59 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:13:33 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:90097 Archived-At: >> Lisp objects are just part of what unexec dumps. There is other >> malloc data, and lots of global variables that don't point to Lisp >> objects. How do you handle them? >> True globals live in the executable itself ini the usual way, as far >> as I know. Other malloc data needs to be characterized to the dumper >> in a way similar to the way that Lisp data is characterized to the GC. >> Beyond that, I don't know; I just know that we do, successfully. >> If somebody wants to follow up, Olivier Galibert knows how. > As far as I know, Mr. Nagano wrote the code of portable > dumper for Emacs, and has already sent FSF the signed > ASSIGNMENT paper a few years ago. Is the code available somewhere? Stefan