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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:44:27 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Emacs developers 
> <address@hidden>, 
>       Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>
> 
>  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 ? 

No.