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Re: What is the Emacs "nonportable dumper" catastrophe?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: What is the Emacs "nonportable dumper" catastrophe? |
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Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:35:00 +0300 |
> From: Jeffrey Walton <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 21:44:12 -0400
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> There's never been a LISP compiler. LISP "compilers"
> just dump memory. See the Emacs "nonportable dumper"
> catastrophe that was only fixed in the last couple years.
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> What is the catastrophe that was fixed?
See the description of portable dumper in NEWS. The description of
the previous dumping as "catastrophe" is a wild exaggeration, IMNSHO.