Re: Compiling (development) Emacs with MSVC

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Fabrice Popineau writes:
 > 2010/12/18 Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
 > 
 > > Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden> writes:
 > >
 > > > The portable dumper (once written for emacs 21 and avalaible in xemacs)
 > > > would be a very good idea.

AFAIK Emacs's portable dumper and XEmacs's share no code.

 > > Except that it isn't portable, it mixes function pointers with data
 > > pointers which is a no-no.

Point taken.  But in practice it has worked everywhere except some
64-bit Intel platform which is sufficiently rare that nobody in XEmacs
core dev circles has access to one, and maybe with SELinux cranked up
to maximum orneriness.