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24.3.90; Warning (initialization): Building Emacs overflowed pure space

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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17255 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17255: 24.3.90; Warning (initialization): Building Emacs overflowed pure space
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 08:30:56 +0200

On 2014-04-13 07:16 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
>> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 23:11:24 +0200
>> Cc: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
>> 
>> I upgraded the emacs-24 branch (should be close to the just-released
>> 24.3.90 pretest), and was greeted with an unpleasant warning:
>> 
>> ,----
>> | Warning (initialization): Building Emacs overflowed pure space.
>> (See the node Pure Storage in the Lisp manual for details.)
>> `----
>
> What is the smallest increment to BASE_PURESIZE that makes this
> problem go away?

Increasing it by as little as 100 is sufficient.  Here is what I got
without the increment:

,----
| emacs:0:Pure Lisp storage overflow (approx. 1700061 bytes needed)
`----

Cheers,
       Sven

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