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Date:      Mon, 18 Dec 1995 13:37:48 -0800
From:      gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew), questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: undump program 
Message-ID:  <952.819322668@westhill.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:05:24 MST." <199512182105.OAA12378@phaeton.artisoft.com> 

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Terry Lambert wrote in message ID
<199512182105.OAA12378@phaeton.artisoft.com>:
> What is it you want?  Checkpoint/restart?  There are packages for
> that, but they certainly don't involve undumping core files.

Check SunOS... there is an undump type program (forget it's name)
which allows you to take something like perl or (AFAIR) smalltalk, and
run them with a piece of code to compile. Once compiled, the compiled
code calls a fn which causes a core dump. You can then undump this to
get the ``pre-compiled'' version of the code.

If memory serves, this is how LaTeX for SPARC is produced (you run TeX
with latex.tex loaded or whatever, and then dump it).

Gary




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