Re: Building Emacs overflowed pure space

[Richard Stallman]

    > I tried the exact the same thing (using the naive version), but the
    > dumped emacs crashed immediately after loadup, thinking that "nil"
    > was a filename...  So I didn't think it was safe to do this.

    I'm not sure if this should be counted as an objection.

The code he wrote must have a bug in it.  If your code works,
I guess it does not have a similar bug.