[PATCH] malloc: Remove dumped heap support
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Sep 16 19:14:15 GMT 2025
* Adhemerval Zanella Netto:
> Right, but from Florian's comment the emacs configure checks for
> Doug Lea malloc style will always return false. And afaik the
> heap dump support is an startup optimization, so not really
> required to run old emacs binaries.
No, it is required to run old Emacs binaries. It is also quite
difficult to run old Emacs without dumping first. The temacs binary is
not not fully-featured. But this is rather old history by this point.
I still think if people want to run these old Emacs binaries, they can
build their own out-of-tree malloc with suitable heap rewriting.
Thanks,
Florian
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