RE: Nuking unexec

> Ben> Pdump has been rock-solid for me on Windows and Cygwin for a > Ben> long time, with no recent patches. > > There is some lingering unsigned uncleanliness on Mac OS X IIRC. > > Ben> Is it time to nuke the old unexec code and use pdump > Ben> everywhere? > > I have heard _no_ complaints about pdump since the bug where some > dumped variables were overriding command-line switches got worked > around sometime around 21.4.5, with the single exception of the > annoying .dmp files. As long as those are now gone on all platforms > (I think OG fixed that last summer?) I'm in favor of getting rid of > unexec. It looks like pdump doesn't yet work on all platforms. In the xemacs.spec file for SuSE Linux, we use don't use pdump for the ia64 architecture. Andreas Schwab (CC:), our ia64 expert said it doesn't work on ia64. He even told me today it *cannot* work on ia64.