[Gcl-devel] Re: other unexec problems

[Jan D.]

> Greetings!  Two other unexec issues I thought I'd mention in case they
> trigger any ideas:
>
> 1) Unexec'ed (elf) images cannot (apparently) be prelinked
> http://bugs.debian.org/262891
> http://bugs.debian.org/262890
>
> 2) Unexec'ed images on powerpc cannot be reliably stripped
> http://bugs.debian.org/210809
>
> Any ideas, or even just confirmations/refutations with emacs, most
> appreciated.

I'd expect emacs to have the same problems as described in the two bugs 
above, but I have not checked.  The trend seems to go to more 
complicated binary file formats, and more types of file formats.  This 
suggests to me that it might be a good time to rethink the whole unexec 
approach.  There must be some other more platform neutral way to save 
and restore state.

        Jan D.