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27.0.50; pure space and pdumper

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Message #352 received at 36649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 36649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 pipcet <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#36649: 27.0.50; pure space and pdumper
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2022 19:23:24 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> No, I'm okay with having the purespace removed from the pdumper
> builds, if the unexec build can still use it.  AFAIU, that's the
> "behind several ifdefs" alternative.

One reason to get rid of pure space is to get rid of all the calls to
build_pure_c_string etc etc that litter the code, but just disabling
pure space in pdump doesn't help us with that.  (And the reason we want
to do that is to make the code easier to approach for people.)

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