Subject: Re: bug#36649: 27.0.50; pure space and pdumper

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 20:19:50 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 13:06:24 -0400
> 
> >>   https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36649#68
> >
> > Right -- what to do about unexec builds?  Was the plan to stop
> > supporting that in this cycle or the next?
> 
> I thought the question was not directly relevant because removal of the
> pure space does not imply removing unexec.

The beginning of the bug discussion explains why they are related.
Specifically: (a) the motivation for removing purespace comes from the
pdumper build, and (b) we don't want to waste efforts on fixing
possible breakage of the unexec build as result of this change.