Re: New dumping problem...

[jhd]

>     FWIW, Fedora core 2 works OK with this change.
>
> Does that mean we can delete the other PROBLEMS item?
> (The one about exec_shield, that is.)

The exec-shield workaround kicks in if the difference between the end  
of the data section and the start of the heap is greater than  
MAX_HEAP_BSS_DIFF which is 1 Mbyte.  But MAX_HEAP_BSS_DIFF is a value  
I came up with when examining the exec-shield code in the Linux  
kernel for Fedora 2.  However, there is nothing preventing a new exec- 
shield implementation to change this.  Also, as far as I know, the  
workaround has only been tested on the ix86 architecture.

So I'd propose we keep it in PROBLEMS, but we could add that Emacs  
tries to handle exec-shield itself.  A note on how to disable the  
randomization should be added to PROBLEMS also.

    Jan D.