Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc

Stefan Monnier monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Sat Jan 23 22:19:00 GMT 2016


> I don't understand the last part of this at all.
> AFAIU, the problem is not with Lisp data, the problem is with memory
> allocations on the C level that are not on behalf of Lisp data.  We
> need to find a way of doing that without relying on that data be
> fee'able after dumping.

The part you didn't understand was specifically referring to the fact
that preloaded Lisp data can also be freed (by the GC) and that in turn
can also lead to calls to `free'.


        Stefan



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