Re: Bignum speedup patch causes crash at startup

[Andy Moreton]

On Tue 04 Sep 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:37:39 +0100
>> 
>> As this patch moves init of bignum allocators later in startup, will
>> this cause future problems if bignums are used early in emacs before
>> dumping ?
>
> Yes.  Ideally, bignums shouldn't be used at dump time at all, but if
> we must, they should be used only after the call to init_bignum.

Tom added support in commit fb26c9fd69 ("Make purecopy work for
bignums"), so if that causes problems then it may need to be revisited.

    AndyM