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From: crl@newton.ARPA (Charles R. LaBrec)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu use of alloca and setjmp
Message-ID: <415@newton.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 16:42:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 16:42:33 1986
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Organization: Physics Dept., Purdue Univ., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <438@well.UUCP> fnf@well.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>     ...        GNU emacs basically shoves things into text space by
>extending it to overlap part of the data space.  If you have a 4Mb
>"hole" between text and data, you end up with a VERY large shared 
>text program!

And if your system is demand-paged (what system that GNU EMACS runs on 
isn't?), then the hole is never paged in, so, no lossage to the system.

Charles LaBrec
crl @ newton.PURDUE.EDU
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Charles LaBrec
crl @ newton.PURDUE.EDU