GNU bug report logs - #38492
27.0.50; Warn pdumper users when pure space has been overflowed

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From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Subject: bug#38492: 27.0.50; Warn pdumper users when pure space has been overflowed
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:37:49 +0100

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

> I'm not sure we should care about overflowing the pure space in
> pdumped Emacs.  Why does it matter?  It mattered in unexec'ed Emacs,
> that's why we warned about it.  Maybe the right solution is to remove
> the warning from startup.el instead.

Sorry for the false alarm then.  I took the startup warning at face
value; I didn't see anything in (elisp)Pure Storage suggesting that the
portable dumper invalidated it.

Had I tried to run garbage-collect manually, I would have noticed that
the return value was non-nil, suggesting that GC wasn't disabled…

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