sig segv cut-n-paste issue with 10^6 lines

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Tue Feb 6 08:47:36 EST 2007


"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> There are also a fair number of minor differences in philosophy,
> which you will find oblique references to in comments in the
> bytecode system implementation.
>
> All this could be worked out, I suppose, but what is the gain to be
> expected from that?

Given that among different versions of either Emacs or XEmacs,
different things get solved using macro expansion, .elc compatibility
is pretty much a myth even between versions with compatible byte code.

So if you want to be on the safe side, byte compile with the installed
binary.

-- 
David Kastrup



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