Subject: bug#12242: Emacs 24.2 RC1 build fails on OpenBSD

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:02:06 +0300

> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:35:26 +0900
> From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],
> 	[email-masked]
> 
> I took a look at ralloc.c a bit, and I thought that the variable
> `use_relocatable_buffers' is not designed to be changed temporarily in
> the first place.

Why not?  Can you tell what led you to that conclusion?

My reading of the code is that inhibiting relocation just means that
ralloc.c always asks for more memory when it cannot find a large
enough block in the existing heaps.