Re: persistent data feature

[Richard Stallman]

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    > . unlike MS-Windows, on Posix systems Emacs will start with no
    >   problems when an optional shared library is missing; it is only
    >   when some function from the library is called that you'll have
    >   trouble (Emacs will segfault);

This suggests that if Emacs can find out whether the shared library
is missing, it could signal an error before calling any function
in that library, and we would get exactly the behavior that is sought.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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