Re: pdumping "into" the executable

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/26/2018 01:18 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> > Or, just turn the dump to a C file, then compile it
> > and do a second link.  Aside from (maybe hypothetical) C compiler
> > limits, that would be very portable.
> But not redumpable.

Why couldn't it be redumpable? All that the user should need is a C 
compiler. That's not unreasonable.

> Besides, the problem with a second link is that it might change the
> relative positions of symbols within Emac

How could that be a problem? Symbols known to C code are known by their 
fixed offsets and the second link wouldn't change these offsets, and 
symbols not known to C code need to be reallocated anyway during loading.