GNU bug report logs - #36649
27.0.50; pure space and pdumper

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 14:27:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> protonmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#36649: 27.0.50; pure space and pdumper
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:41:40 -0700
On 8/21/20 6:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> What do we do with unexec builds, which are still supported?  Remove
> that support? or ignore the possibility of an unexec build?

It's a good time to remove unexec support. Nobody is using it, there's a good 
chance that it doesn't work nowadays on many platforms, and its continued 
presence in the source code is costing us all more than it's benefiting.




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