GNU bug report logs - #23529
Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 12:20:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed

Merged with 13964

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com, 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23529: Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:19:28 +0300

> Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com, 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 09:59:52 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean by
> > "relocating objects", and why would we need to do that as part of
> > un-dumping?
> 
> Objects in the new Emacs might have different addresses from objects in the old 
> Emacs, due to address randomization.

Yes, but I don't think we will see them in the dumped data, except as
results of DEFVAR etc., which will have to be fixed up anyway.
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