Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:50:31 -0800
> 
> Emacs could live without the current unexec in a semi-portable way by doing 
> what 
> XEmacs does, which is to write out data and mmap it in later (sorry, don't 
> know 
> the details). There are other possibilities, e.g., have unexec write out the 
> state in the form of C files that are compiled and linked in the usual way to 
> build a faster-starting executable (this would be an Emacs API change, 
> though). 
> Any such changes would take some time to hack into something reliable and 
> portable, and so will have to wait until after Emacs 25 is out.

There's also what the MS-Windows port does (temacs allocates off a
static array), which AFAIK is entirely portable, and doesn't require
mmap.  See w32heap.c.