Re: unexec development

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Just another ping on this issue.  Is anyone working on
unexec anymore?  Does anyone have interest in doing so?

Take care,

Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:

> Greetings!  Currently, GCL and programs built on top of it
> (maxima,acl2,axiom), use emacs' unexec by default to save intermediary
> and final system images.  Compiled code is loaded and relocated
> dynamically at runtime, stored in an expanding .data section via sbrk,
> and finally dumped with unexec.  
> 
> I would like to extend this functionality if possible to include
> compiled code which references symbols in external shared libs opened
> again dynamically at runtime via dlopen.  Loading and relocating is
> straightforward, but somehow I'd need to have unexec write a
> new relocation record into the final image for each symbol for use by
> ld.so.  
> 
> Does this sound of interest to emacs too?  Does this trigger any ideas
> as to a possibly better approach?
> 
> Take care,
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> Camm Maguire                                          address@hidden
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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