GNU bug report logs - #12242
Emacs 24.2 RC1 build fails on OpenBSD

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jca <at> wxcvbn.org (Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas)

Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:58:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Cc: 12242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jca <at> wxcvbn.org
Subject: bug#12242: Emacs 24.2 RC1 build fails on OpenBSD
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:02:06 +0300

> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:35:26 +0900
> From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
> Cc: jca <at> wxcvbn.org,
> 	12242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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.
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