Re: Emacs-diffs digest, Vol 1 #508 - 12 msgs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:29:04 -0500
> 
> > What is the reason for this change in src/Makefile.in?  Are you
> > saying that the default value of PURESIZE is large enough to load
> > *.el files in source form?
> > 
> >     - /* Build a temacs with a sufficiently large PURESIZE to load the
> >     -    Lisp files from loadup.el in source form.  */
> >     - 
> >     - bootstrap-temacs: 
> >     -       LC_ALL=C $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) temacs ALL_CFLAGS="$(ALL_CFLAGS) 
> > -DPURESIZE=5000000 -I../src"
> >     - 
> 
> Overflowing the pure area is not a problem.  It's only a performance
> issue, which is irrelevant during bootstrap.  Check my patch to
> alloc.c committed around the same time.

Sorry, I still don't understand.  Can you please epxlain in a few
more words?  The comment in Makefile.in seems to indicate that more
pure storage is needed for loading *.el files--are you saying that
the comment is inaccurate?

Btw, the change in alloc.c makes the comment immediately preceding
check_pure_size, the function you've changed, inaccurate: it still
says we signal an error.

> I think it'd be a bug if compiling a .el file requires the DOC file.

I thought about a (remote) possibility that someone needs to run the
half-bootstrapped Emacs to debug or investigate some problem.  If
they do, they might want documentation features to work.  Not a big
deal, obviously, but so is building DOC.