On Aug 10 11:58, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 8/10/2011 11:28 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > > >Would it be possible to accomplish the same goal without using bss_sbrk and > >the static heap? In > >other words, can one save the information on the Cygwin heap as part of > >emacs.exe, so that when > >emacs is run the heap gets restored? I know virtually nothing about the > >structure of .exe files and > >how the loader works, so I have no idea whether that's feasible. > > I would think so. The trick is knowing what pages contain > the Cygwin heap. As for the other approach, these need to > get dumped as initialized data segments. It might not be > too hard if the Cygwin heap provides functions telling you > where it starts and ends (more generally, the ranges of pages > in which it lies). > > I begin to wonder, though, whether this would mean having > to provide two different copies of emacs, one with the > heap at 0x2... and one with it at 0x8...
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