Re: pdumping "into" the executable

[Daniel Colascione]

On 02/26/2018 05:38 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Another way to avoid having a "separate dump" file is to turn things
> around: make the dump start with "#!/..../emacs --dump-file".
> Of course, it's got its own set of problems.

Such as working at all only on unix-ish systems. (Windows batch files 
aren't quite good enough.) If we're going to go this route, the 
append-to-the-binary trick is probably the best approach. Its only real 
disadvantages are that strip(1) removes the dump and that changing the 
executable would disturb the signature, if we signed the binary. I don't 
think strip-robustness is all that important, and I'd hope we could 
re-sign binaries as needed.

I have a PoC of the append thing, but for now, I think the separate file 
approach is working well enough.