From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about mmap buffers
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:24:09 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20140429T182327-415@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20140425T131540-411@post.gmane.org
Nobody picked up my question.
So more formally, can we apply a patch like the one below?
I'm not sure if the mmap_set_vars() function is of any use
at all under Unix. I don't see the point with it. Maybe
it could be entirely removed.
Thanks in advance for your comments.
Fabrice
=== modified file 'src/buffer.c'
--- src/buffer.c 2014-04-24 03:59:19 +0000
+++ src/buffer.c 2014-04-29 15:15:34 +0000
@@ -5336,14 +5341,15 @@
#ifdef USE_MMAP_FOR_BUFFERS
{
- /* When using the ralloc implementation based on mmap(2), buffer
- text pointers will have been set to null in the dumped Emacs.
- Map new memory. */
struct buffer *b;
+ /* No buffer can be dumped with a meaningful address.
+ We reallocate them here. */
FOR_EACH_BUFFER (b)
- if (b->text->beg == NULL)
- enlarge_buffer_text (b, 0);
+ {
+ b->text->beg = NULL;
+ enlarge_buffer_text (b, 0);
+ }
}
#endif /* USE_MMAP_FOR_BUFFERS */
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-29 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-25 11:20 Question about mmap buffers Fabrice Popineau
2014-04-29 16:24 ` Fabrice Popineau [this message]
2014-05-14 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-17 7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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