Emacs, portable?

Posted Jun 29, 2023 22:45 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: Emacs, portable? by foom
Parent article: Emacs for Android

Oh, what? Wow.

I seem to recall recently-ish (last 2–3 years?) reading about people complaining that they still need that hack.

But TIL it’s no longer needed, apparently. Good for them.

Emacs, portable?

Posted Jun 30, 2023 9:43 UTC (Fri) by rudi (subscriber, #4828) [Link]

The default was changed in Emacs 27.1, released mid-2020. From the NEWS file:

> ** Emacs now uses a "portable dumper" instead of unexec.
> This improves compatibility with memory allocation on modern systems,
> and in particular better supports the Address Space Layout
> Randomization (ASLR) feature, a security technique used by most modern
> operating systems.