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From: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: (*(dump = GNU ? unexec : undump))("perl.$$");
Message-ID: <100236@convex.convex.com>
Date: 24 Feb 90 12:22:16 GMT
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Reply-To: tchrist@convex.Com (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX
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I've been thinking about how to make the dump operator useful for me, and
I've an idea.  I happen to know that our (Convex's) distributed version of
GNU emacs has a working dump-emacs routine (I don't actually use emacs,
mind you; see .signature for details :-), and I figured to stick it into
perl for its dump operator.  Has anyone else contemplated this action?
What should be the name of the a.out file generated?  Should it be
"perl.$$" or "$0.$$" or something like that?  Should dump take a 
string expr argument as the name?

I'll work on it as soon as I can get a hold of the guy who did our
version of unexec() for GNU emacs, but he's on vacation right now.

--tom
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    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
		 "EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor too big!"