From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<200009231730.TAA27218@father.ludd.luth.se> (message from Martin
	Str|mberg on Sat, 23 Sep 2000 19:30:43 +0200 (MET DST))
Subject:	Re: (fwd) startup-code
References:	<200009231730 DOT TAA27218 AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id:	<20000924003748.8850823139@titan.progiciels-bpi.ca>
Date:	Sat, 23 Sep 2000 20:37:48 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To:	nobody AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To:	listserv AT delorie DOT com

> From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 19:30:43 +0200 (MET DST)
> > 
> > Please hold it.  I think Emacs uses one of those symbols, but I don't
> > have any good way of checking it where I'm writing this.
> 
> Ok - no problem. If I manage to build emacs with the patch, it'll be
> ok from emacs' perspective, right?

No ;-)

The way Emacs uses this symbol is rather tricky.  I don't remember the
details and don't have Emacs sources handy to check (in fact, I'm not
even sure Emacs uses _end, it might be some other related symbol), but
I would not be satisfied by a mere build; a manual inspection of the
related source code is required IMHO.  I would grep the sources for
all uses of all the variables which refer to _end (or whatever symbol
is used in the DJGPP version), and make sure they are not affected.
(I happen to vaguely remember that the already use "asm", but I might
be mistaken, as it's a long time since I looked at that code.)

- Raw text -