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author Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
date Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:34:12 +0000
parents 566253900690 646750cbd594
children f2ebccfa87d4
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--- a/src/alloc.c	Sun Sep 19 04:06:19 2004 +0000
+++ b/src/alloc.c	Tue Sep 21 09:34:12 2004 +0000
@@ -186,8 +186,11 @@
 
 #ifndef HAVE_SHM
 
-/* Force it into data space!  Initialize it to a nonzero value;
-   otherwise some compilers put it into BSS.  */
+/* Initialize it to a nonzero value to force it into data space
+   (rather than bss space).  That way unexec will remap it into text
+   space (pure), on some systems.  We have not implemented the
+   remapping on more recent systems because this is less important
+   nowadays than in the days of small memories and timesharing.  */
 
 EMACS_INT pure[PURESIZE / sizeof (EMACS_INT)] = {1,};
 #define PUREBEG (char *) pure