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Re: Preview: portable dumper


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Preview: portable dumper
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:32:40 +0200

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:06:11 -0800
> 
> However, this is not simply an efficiency issue. Emacs currently does 
> not run on FreeBSD arm64 because of the unexec problem (Bug#24892)

Let's get our facts straight, shall we?  First, Emacs never worked on
that platform, and second, the current reason is that they removed a
certain library function, which happens to be called by unexec.
Removal of a library function can break any part of Emacs.



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