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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:32:47AM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
>=20
> Other than the fact that this is a gross, machine-dependent, abuse of
> virtual address space that makes linking with shared objects hairy at bes=
t?
> (IMNSHO, all such programs are just plain bogus, and should instead save
> their binary state in a way that can be read() or mmap()ed back into
> memory.  There's no excuse for emacs to keep using its undump scheme.  8-)

The claimed reason is so that the now-initialized memory is in the code
section, thus shared between users and demand-paged.

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