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Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: rms at gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, monnier at iro dot umontreal dot ca, emacs-devel at gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:04:33 +0100
- Subject: Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc
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On 01/27/2016 04:38 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> AFAIK, Emacs has no reason to call any libraries in temacs except libc
> (and its logical extensions, like libm).
ELF constructors still run. Whether their effects are visible across
dumps depends on which symbols are referenced from the main program.
All this is rather brittle.
Florian