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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: CANNOT_DUMP and portable dumper |
Date: | Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:56:06 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 |
On 1/30/19 9:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
is CANNOT_DUMP no longer used for systems that can neither unexec nor use the pdumper code? Or are there no such systems anymore?
I have been using CANNOT_DUMP for testing Emacs in debugging frameworks that are incompatible with unexec. As far as I know, this was the only remaining practical use for the traditional meaning of CANNOT_DUMP (nobody was using Emacs in CANNOT_DUMP mode for ordinary use).
As pdumper makes this usage obsolete, we should retire this obsolete use of CANNOT_DUMP and rename the identifier to something more reasonable (e.g., to PORTABLE_DUMP as Glenn suggested).
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