Re: When should ralloc.c be used?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 19:37:36 -0700
> 
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > that doesn't explain why we'd need to use ralloc in the mean time.
> 
> I suppose you're right that we don't need to; we could instead hack on Emacs 
> to 
> get it to work without ralloc on recent glibc.

How about using mmap in those cases?

> If someone wants to do that, great. I'd rather spend my own limited
> cycles on fixing the main problem, which is unexec.

I thought we agreed to get rid of unexec by loading a single .elc file
at startup of Emacs, and remove the distinction between temacs and
emacs altogether.  Is that what you'd like to work on?

Thanks.