Subject: Re: bug#23529: Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 22:09:20 +0300

> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 14:18:38 -0400
> 
> > So we will be giving up the ability of end-users to re-dump their
> > Emacs, unless they have a compiler/binutils installed that are
> > compatible with the ones used to build the Emacs binary?
> 
> Does this feature exist? I keep seeing complaints about the fact that it was disabled:

AFAIR it was disabled because no one cared to fix its quirks wrt ASLR
etc. (or maybe some similar nuisance).  Once the dumped data is
portable, those issues will be all but gone.

Moving to compiled C code will kill that feature for good.