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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>,
	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
	rpluim@gmail.com, schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Dumping unexec (was: Question about pure space)
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 09:43:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmspoqhia.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bk64imly.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:17:45 +0800")

>> 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`.
Has someone with access to such systems tried that?
Is there some more serious issue?


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-20 13:43 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                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2024-04-20 14:14                   ` Dumping unexec (was: Question about pure space) Eli Zaretskii
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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