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

From: Clément Pit--Claudel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:59:30 -0400

On 2016-09-06 15:09, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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.

Thanks, I understand better now.  So ideally when we change the implementation we'll be able to re-enable this feature.

Cheers,
Clément.