Re: Pure space overflows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:28:24 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu needs a SYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA of 250000 to
> >> build without pure space overflows, which seems a little excessive to
> >> me.
> >
> > With what configure options and which optional features?
> 
> Sorry, I should've mentioned that it's the same as the other machines I
> tested: XInput 2 and the GTK 3 toolkit, and xpm, jpeg, tiff, gif, png,
> rsvg, and webp support.
> 
> Though on that machine, turning XInput 2 off makes no difference.

It is strange that PPC needs significantly more pure space.  Does it
have some unique alignment requirements, perhaps?

Andreas, any ideas why additional pure space would be needed for PPC?