Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Thanks for that heads-up. Making the Emacs unexec mechanism more portable
> has been our to-do list for some time, and this will light more of a fire
> under it. We're already under a feature freeze for Emacs 25, though, so
> Emacs 25 will have to go out without the fix (which will be reasonably
> substantial, alas).

Hi Paul,

Can you elaborate what unexec has been doing for us up till now, and what
living without it will entail in terms of both technical content and work
required?

Thanks,
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