GNU bug report logs - #38453
27.0.50; Portable dumper error: smuggled pointers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 04:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 38453-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38453-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#38453: Error out if dumping while interactive?
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:04:07 +0200

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:51:55 +0100
> Cc: 38453-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > AFAICT Fdump_emacs explicitly checks for this:
> >
> > >  if (! noninteractive)
> > >    error ("Dumping Emacs works only in batch mode");
> >
> > Maybe Fdump_emacs_portable should do the same… or maybe the check should
> > be moved somewhere in loadup.el?
> 
> Sounds reasonable, I've now fixed with with commit e7edba42c8.

I think it's misguided, since we intend to lift this limitation in
some future release.
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