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Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken.
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken. |
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Tue, 9 Apr 2019 15:47:17 -0700 |
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On 3/4/19 6:17 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2/28/19 12:59 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> is all this really needed? Is pdumper.c really that fragile,
>> that it can't cope with changes in certain structs?
> No, it's not needed, and in my experience the mechanism's costs far
> exceed any benefit.
No further comment and the mechanism just bit me again, so I installed
the attached patch to disable it. We can reenable it later if needed
(which I hope won't happen....).
0001-Remove-dmpstruct.h.patch
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