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Re: pdumping "into" the executable


From: Clément Pit-Claudel
Subject: Re: pdumping "into" the executable
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:34:11 -0500
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On 2018-02-26 16:10, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Maybe instead you could use objcopy to stuff the data into some section
> in the executable.  Or, just turn the dump to a C file, then compile it
> and do a second link.  Aside from (maybe hypothetical) C compiler
> limits, that would be very portable.

Note that having (the option to keep) the dump and the main binary separate can 
be a feature.  For example, Emacs is often installed in a location that's 
writable by root only, and if the dump file can be separate then users can just 
redump in a directory that they can write to, without having to copy the entire 
Emacs binary.

Separate dump files also makes it easier to experiment with multiple dumps.

Clément.



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