Mercurial > emacs
changeset 70403:bbbbf819a488
(Pure Storage): Mention the pure overflow message at startup.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 05 May 2006 12:58:42 +0000 |
| parents | 092e1a7bea9c |
| children | ce092da13632 |
| files | lispref/internals.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/internals.texi Fri May 05 12:54:54 2006 +0000 +++ b/lispref/internals.texi Fri May 05 12:58:42 2006 +0000 @@ -155,11 +155,15 @@ marked as read-only (on operating systems that permit this), so that the memory space can be shared by all the Emacs jobs running on the machine at once. Pure storage is not expandable; a fixed amount is -allocated when Emacs is compiled, and if that is not sufficient for the -preloaded libraries, @file{temacs} crashes. If that happens, you must -increase the compilation parameter @code{PURESIZE} in the file -@file{src/puresize.h}. This normally won't happen unless you try to -preload additional libraries or add features to the standard ones. +allocated when Emacs is compiled, and if that is not sufficient for +the preloaded libraries, @file{temacs} allocates dynamic memory for +the part that didn't fit. If that happens, you should increase the +compilation parameter @code{PURESIZE} in the file +@file{src/puresize.h} and rebuild Emacs, even though the resulting +image will work. Such an overflow normally won't happen unless you +try to preload additional libraries or add features to the standard +ones. Emacs will display a warning about the overflow when it +starts. @defun purecopy object This function makes a copy in pure storage of @var{object}, and returns