Re: MPS: Forwording symbols

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > Hm, why do you think it writes to the data segment?  Confusing names
>> > aside, it seems to read a value, which presumably is a pointer, adjusts
>> > it to the new basis and then writes it back.
>> 
>> Becasue of this
>> 
>>      value += emacs_basis ();
>> 
>> It has dumnped pointer - basis, and now uses that value to get the
>> pointer in the current process.
>
> Isn't this because the dumped data is loaded with a different base
> address than the one with which is was dumped?

That'c correct. The same happens, with a different basis, for addresses
in the dump. Helmut asked how I know that it writes to Emacs' data
segment. That's from the use of emacs_basis.