Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358)

[Fabrice Popineau]

2016-10-27 3:36 GMT+02:00 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:

On 10/26/2016 06:23 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:

Could you explain that more?

The main idea is to save the current Emacs state as C source code, then compile the (large and boring) .c file and relink Emacs with the resulting .o file instead of a dummy .o file that it would start off with. Most of this new .o file would be data; perhaps some would be code that would initialize the data, though we'd want to minimize this.

I find it disturbing that a C compiler will be needed to redump Emacs.

Am I alone ? 

Fabrice