[PATCH] malloc: Remove dumped heap support
Adhemerval Zanella Netto
adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Tue Sep 16 19:34:35 GMT 2025
On 16/09/25 16:14, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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.
Right, but does current dumped heap support work with old Emacs binaries
or does we need extra hacks to make it happen?
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