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27.0.50; Warn pdumper users when pure space has been overflowed

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Message #14 received at 38492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38492: 27.0.50; Warn pdumper users when pure space has been
 overflowed
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 08:49:04 -0800

On 12/6/19 8:37 AM, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> 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…

We should probably consider just removing the pure space mechanism at 
some point.

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