Re: bootstrap compiles C files twice

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > See my remarks above about overflowing the pure storage while building
>> > bootstrap-emacs. 
>> 
>> Is that an issue?  We don't seem to be even close to that, at least on a
>> GNU/Linux x86 machine:
>> 
>> [snip]
>> ((286525 . 10109) (13904 . 2) (653 . 157) 2024114 1310655 (105 . 2) (24 . 
>> 49) (30703 . 11822))
>> Finding pointers to doc strings...
>> Finding pointers to doc strings...done
>> Finding pointers to doc strings...done
>> Dumping under names emacs and emacs-23.0.60
>> 71704 pure bytes used
>> ^^^^^

> Isn't this small number a clear sign of pure space overflow?

I think it's a sign that loadup.el does

(if (or (equal (nth 3 command-line-args) "bootstrap")
    [...]
      ;; We'll probably overflow the pure space.
      (setq purify-flag nil)


-- Stefan