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: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23529: Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 22:09:20 +0300

> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit <at> gmail.com>
> 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.
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