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28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] Crash while scrolling through dispnew.c

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From: Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 47067 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47067: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] Crash while scrolling
 through dispnew.c
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:37:45 +0000

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

>> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:52:11 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: 47067 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> > > Question #2: can we somehow remove the stale .eln file in these
>> > > situations?
>> > 
>> > I guess we should make it work for non installed case.
>> > 
>> > be22cda7be should do this.
>> 
>> Thanks.  However, does this also attempt to remove stale *.eln files
>> that are preloaded?  Because if they are removed, older binaries which
>> were dumped with those stale *.eln files will be unable to start after
>> the cleanup, right?  It's a bit of a mess, I guess.
>
> So maybe we should separate the preloaded *.eln files from the rest of
> them.  Say, put the *.eln files for the preloaded Lisp files into a
> special subdirectory of native-lisp/XX.YY.ZZ-xxxxxx/, let's call it
> "preloaded".  Then in that subdirectory we never remove stale *.eln
> files, because there might be a .pdmp file that references them.  The
> *.eln files in other places can be cleaned up when they become stale.
>
> WDYT?

What should be choose as XX.YY.ZZ-xxxxxx ?

Thanks

  Andrea

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