GNU bug report logs - #6185
big array in bidi.c

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: big array in bidi.c
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 12:58:38 -0400

bidi.c contains a 600KB uninitialized array, this increases the emacs
image on disk by that amount, which should make for a slower startup.

It would be better if that array was malloced.
Reply sent to Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 6185-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6185: big array in bidi.c
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 19:41:08 +0300

> From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 12:58:38 -0400
> 
> bidi.c contains a 600KB uninitialized array, this increases the emacs
> image on disk by that amount, which should make for a slower startup.
> 
> It would be better if that array was malloced.

Fixed in revno 100282.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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