GNU bug report logs - #20868
24.5; Emacs dumper should be portable

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:44:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to http://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2018-02/msg00347.html

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#20868: closed (Re: bug#20868: 24.5; Emacs dumper should be
 portable)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:33:02 +0000
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Your bug report

#20868: 24.5; Emacs dumper should be portable

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 20868-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20868: 24.5; Emacs dumper should be portable
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:32:33 -0500
Version: 27.1

This was added in d12e5d0.

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; Emacs dumper should be portable
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 21:43:27 +0200
I think the Emacs dumper should be rewritten to no longer rely on
reading its process memory and writing an executable file.  This
prevents ASLR and PIE, doesn't work on all systems, and requires some
workarounds.  The dumper should serialize the internal data structures
in a portable format (e.g. FlatBuffer) instead.



In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0, NS apple-appkit-1344.72)
 of 2015-04-12 on p
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1347
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.5
 --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.5/share/info/emacs
 --with-file-notification=gfile --with-dbus --with-gnutls --with-rsvg
 --with-imagemagick --without-popmail --with-ns
 --disable-ns-self-contained'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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Memory information:
((conses 16 72033 5331)
 (symbols 48 17540 0)
 (miscs 40 36 127)
 (strings 32 9868 5136)
 (string-bytes 1 263333)
 (vectors 16 9021)
 (vector-slots 8 377069 14448)
 (floats 8 55 72)
 (intervals 56 184 0)
 (buffers 960 11))



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