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Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc
- From: John Wiegley <jwiegley at gmail dot com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Emacs Development <Emacs-devel at gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:30:50 -0800
- Subject: Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc
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- Reply-to: "John Wiegley" <johnw at gnu dot org>
>>>>> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Thanks for that heads-up. Making the Emacs unexec mechanism more portable
> has been our to-do list for some time, and this will light more of a fire
> under it. We're already under a feature freeze for Emacs 25, though, so
> Emacs 25 will have to go out without the fix (which will be reasonably
> substantial, alas).
Hi Paul,
Can you elaborate what unexec has been doing for us up till now, and what
living without it will entail in terms of both technical content and work
required?
Thanks,
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